"Obscure, like muddy waters."
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"Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure."
"The function of a great library is to store obscure books."
"Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid."
"I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own."
"I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions."
"Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail."
"Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it."