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• Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

  Joseph Addison

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1765). “Rosamond. Cato. The drummer, or The haunted house. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-Examiner. The lover”, p.80

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• An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Idols, May

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.423

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• Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Passion, Comfort, Impossible

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Vices, Masters, Valet

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

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• Familiarity breeds consent.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Consent

  "In Her Day". Book by Rita Mae Brown, 1976.

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• Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

  Boris Spassky

  Literature, Chess, Fischer

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• One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Needs, May, Consciousness

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• All objects lose by too familiar a view.

  John Dryden

  Views, Literature, Familiar

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2336, Delphi Classics

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• The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Eye, Men

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Love, Best Friend, God

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

  Nathan Fillion

  Who I Am, Knowing, You Don't Know Me

  "Nathan Fillion is king of "Castle"". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.reuters.com. March 6, 2011.

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• I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Song

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Feelings, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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• Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Brave, Capes

  Herman Melville (2015). “White Jacket, the World on a Man-of-War: Works of Melville”, p.85, 谷月社

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• When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. Familiarity breeds contempt, people say. But I've found, for creative things, familiarity breeds peace of mind, because you realize you know someone better. You trust each other. You know not to take things a certain way, or a wrong way. You get to where you don't have to waste quite so much time with diplomacy. Things are a little more efficient.

  Edward Norton

  People, Creative, Mind

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  Vince Vaughn

  Nostalgia, Film, Preference

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 1, 2013.

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• The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Horse, Children

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

  Richard Dawkins

  Effort, World, Way

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• Is everyone looking for me?" She shook her head, pulling the robe closer. Suddenly she wanted to be covered up in front of him, in front of all that familiarity and beauty and that lovely predatory smile that said he was willing to do whatever with her, to her, no matter who was waiting in the hall. “ I was hoping they„d put up flyers like they do for lost cats",he said. “Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to „Jace,‟ or „Hot Stuff.‟” “ You did not just say that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Teenage, Cat, Boys

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• One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Men, Average

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.22, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

  David Whyte

  Alertness Is, Discipline, Alertness

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.50, Penguin

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• [William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

  Eudora Welty

  Ordinary World, Strange, Accepted

  Eudora Welty, Pearl Amelia McHaney (2009). “Occasions: Selected Writings”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us - and the key here is constant familiarity. The nature of human thoughts and emotions is such that the more you engage in them, the more you consciously develop them, the more powerful they become.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Compassion, Keys

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• Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

  Steven Pinker

  Two, Degrees, Might

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• Better the devil you know than the angel you don't.

  Hama Tuma

  Angel, Devil, Acquaintance

  "The Devil They Know" by Jon Lee Anderson, www.newyorker.com. July 27, 1998.

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