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Knowing Quotes (page 838)

the negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality Charlotte Bronte
As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness about our own mortality. Everything here eventually dies; we're just the lucky ones who get to think about this fact every day. Elizabeth Gilbert
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within..."
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. Kurt Vonnegut
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. George Orwell
There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a gray overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever have. Ernest Hemingway
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse. Thomas Mann
Charles de Lint quote: "Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who..."
Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing. Charles de Lint
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every thing has a life of its own, and that we are all one life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was practically radiating. The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't. Sue Monk Kidd
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably! William Makepeace Thackeray
Charlotte Perkins Gilman quote: "Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present,..."
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. i'll just have to work from a background of these. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain.... If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time. John Steinbeck
Jodi Picoult quote: "We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more..."
We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any. Jodi Picoult
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. Confucius
Carrie Fisher quote: "There are two things that I know for certain guys are good..."
There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects. Carrie Fisher

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