Gilda Radner  - Quotes

 I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Delicious Ambiguity.
 

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Milan Kundera  - Quotes

 The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure. 

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Ursula K. Le Guin  - Quotes

 To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I don 

Friedrich Nietzsche  - Quotes

 One must learn to love. 

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Joyce Carol Oates  - Quotes

 The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to  

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Rainer Maria Rilke  - Quotes

 Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. 

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Simone de Beauvoir  - Quotes

 As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it. 

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