"The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment."
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"All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful."
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"There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain"
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"We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past."
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"It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything."
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"Nothing is certain by uncertainty."
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"A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests."
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"There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain."
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"About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously."
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"There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony."
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"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."
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"I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me."
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"If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away."
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"To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help."
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"Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist."
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"It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them."
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"Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become."
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"I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate."
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"Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins."
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"To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself."
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