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“Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream”
Vincent van Gogh
“There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen”
Robert Frost
“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!”
Bill Watterson
“Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.”
William Zinsser
“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
Aldous Huxley
“They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy”
Richard Halloway
“It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.”
Rupert Everett
“More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity”
Francois Gautier
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