"Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange."
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"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."
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"My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them."
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"There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on."
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"Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?"
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"Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place."
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"People are strange when you're a stranger."
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"It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head."
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"You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience."
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"It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory."
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"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
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"Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else."
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"Stranger in a strange country."
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"Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary."
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"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."
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"Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us."
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"A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom."
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"There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel."
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"Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation."
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"Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region."
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