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• We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it

  Bob Dylan

  Stranded

  Song: Visions of Johanna

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• With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Mirrors, Blood

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• Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

  Azar Nafisi

  Reality, Limits, Fairy Tale

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House

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• To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Lying, Soul

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.100, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I can't help but smile as I swipe a lone tear trailing down my cheek. How can I not be crazy in love with this guy? Time away from him didn't change anything. I can't deny him another chance. That would be denying myself.

  Simone Elkeles

  Crazy, Guy, Tears

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• Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in making these assertions, their aim was not to deny the reality of God but to safeguard God's transcendence.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Reality, Doe

  Karen Armstrong (2009). “The Case for God”, p.11, Knopf Canada

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• No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

  Albert Camus

  Mistake, Blessing, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.131, Vintage

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• he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Funeral, Independence

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Mastery, Patterns

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Son, Cities, Would Be

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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• Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Crush, Heart, Men

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• If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them.

  J.P. Moreland

  Mean, People, Choices

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• There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

  Katherine Dunn

  Brain, Behaviour, Mediocrity

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jan 29, 2012

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• We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Long, Doubt, Mind

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• Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

  D.T. Suzuki

  Space, Tea, Swallowing

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• “Do you deny it?” Grimani persisted. “That you went to Marchese Rinaldo's room to ask him about your notebook?” “Deny it? Only the greatest selfrestraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.”

  Kate Ross

  Self, Laughing, Restraint

  "The Devil in Music: Julian Kestrel #4".

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• I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around." I feel so wanted. Thanks.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Needs, Littles

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• When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.

  Tom Stoppard

  Responsibility, Play, Ideas

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• We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Past, May

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.

  Anna Maxted

  Stupid, Feel Better, Reality

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• I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

  John Milton

  Life, Patience, Integrity

  John Milton, Charles Symmons (1806). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author”, p.209

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• It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

  Susan Sontag

  Loneliness, Violence, Sides

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• No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.

  Terry Pratchett

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Terry Pratchett (1996). “Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld”, Harper Prism

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• It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Light, Age, Cost

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.462, Macmillan

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