"Men of God and men of war have strange affinities."
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"I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet."
"Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!"
"Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere."
"Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig."
"There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real."
"I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering."
"The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving."
"Dream strange things and make them look like truth."
"We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves."
"Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly."
"Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes."
"The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more."
"The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold."
"If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange"
"Strange thoughts beget strange deeds."
"The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things."
"There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet."
"The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee."
"A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?"