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Samuel Beckett
Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
The Unnamable
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Patrick White
To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.
Voss
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Ernest Hemingway
There is not always an explanation for everything.
A Farewell to Arms
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Philip Roth
Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.
Sabbath's Theater
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Franz Kafka
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
The Trial
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Hermann Hesse
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
Steppenwolf
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Haruki Murakami
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
The Elephant Vanishes
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Haruki Murakami
Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.
Sputnik Sweetheart
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Haruki Murakami
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
Kafka on the Shore
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Sylvia Plath
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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