Emile Zola
Novelist
"Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them."
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Elude
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Jean Genet
Playwright, Novelist
"Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind."
Erma Bombeck
Humorist, Writer
"Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged."
Wayne Dyer
Author, Motivational Speaker
"When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke."
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"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."
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"The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses."
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"The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it."
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"It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger."
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"To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic."
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"What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance."
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"Happiness eludes us if we run after it."
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"Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history."
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