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The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure. ↗


— Milan Kundera


#pleasure

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue. ↗


— Jonathan Stroud


#ignorance #ridiculous #sucking-up #simplicity

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. ↗


— Leo Tolstoy


#simplicity #truth #simplicity

One should use common words to say uncommon things ↗


— Arthur Schopenhauer


#naivete #simplicity #writing #simplicity

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. ↗


— David Levithan


#truth #simplicity

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. ↗


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#simplicity #simplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ↗


— Leonardo da Vinci


#simplicity #sophistication #simplicity

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness. ↗


— Bill Bryson


#simplicity

Garion,' she said very calmly, 'the universe knew your name before that moon up there was spun out of the emptiness. Whole constellations have been waiting for you since the beginning of time.' I didn't want them to, Aunt Pol.' There are those of us who aren't given that option, Garion. There are things that gave to be done and certain people who have to do them. It's as simple as that.' He smiled rather sadly at her flawless face and gently touched the snowy white lock at her brow. Then, for the last time in his life, he asked the question that had been on his lips since he was a tiny boy. 'Why me, Aunt Pol? Why me?' Can you possibly think of anyone else you'd trust to deal with these matters, Garion?' He had not really been prepared for that question. It came at him in stark simplicity. Now at last he fully understood. 'No,' he sighed, 'I suppose not. Somehow it seems a little unfair, though. I wasn't even consulted.' Neither was I, Garion,' she answered. 'But we didn't have to be consulted, did we? The knowledge of what we have to do is born into us. ↗


— David Eddings


#fantasy #purpose #life

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. ↗


— Confucius


#simplicity #simplicity






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