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• Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

  Alfred de Vigny

  Giving, Judging, Feelings

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that are very vague.

  Ishmael Reed

  Thinking, Having Fun, Different

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• They're not so much fans of independent movies are they are of independent theatres. They like small theaters with a vague, septic smell. They're not wild about the newfangled theaters with the assigned seating.

  Nick Kroll

  Independent, Smell, Theatre

  Source: variety.com

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• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  J. L. Austin

  Fake People, Use, People

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• We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.

  Pete Wentz

  Dream, Falling In Love, Talking

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Husband, Mirrors, Space

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• Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Travel, Heaven

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.574, Univ of California Press

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• When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Three, Nerves, Threatening

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.841, Dell

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• I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

  Patti Smith

  Memories, Glasses, Plates

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.3, A&C Black

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• There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Hate, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mean, Intense, Ends

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ruth Prigozy (2008). “The Great Gatsby”, p.130, Oxford University Press

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• However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

  Lin Yutang

  Dream, Reality, Way

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• People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected to animals playing in the field over there. People don't realise how gruesomely and fighteningly the animal gets to the plate.

  Steven Morrissey

  Believe, Animal, People

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• Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hurt, Just Smile, Wonderful

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Dream, Opportunity

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• I decided to go along with it. If he tried to give me the runaround, I would bolt. I didn't have time to waste on vague answers and evasive language. Matt and Rhys were captive, and Rhys couldn't even sit down.

  Amanda Hocking

  Giving, Answers, Waste

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Regret, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.114, Vintage

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• My "heart". Does that pitiful organ still represent anything? It lies motionless in my chest, pumping no blood, serving no purpose, and yet my feelings still seem to originate inside its cold walls. My muted sadness, my vague longing, my rare flickers of joy. They pool in the center of my chest and seep out of there, diluted and faint, but real.

  Isaac Marion

  Wall, Lying, Real

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• I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies." pg. xvi

  Maureen Corrigan

  Book, Heart, Thinking

  Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage

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• Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.55, Ballantine Books

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• Skewer is just too vague. I think if you say, ’Stand back or I’ll stab him in the stomach,’ then I have an idea about how serious you are. After all, Leif’s stomach is his favorite body part so that’s a decent threat.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Thinking, Ideas, Body

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• Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to be moving around. Why?" Halt let go a long breath. "Just a vague hope, really. There's a chance that when the Temujai here you crashing around in the trees, they might think you're a bear." Erak smiled, with his mouth only. His eyes were as cold as the snow. "You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." "If you could manage to do it quietly, I'd almost welcome it," Halt said.

  John Flanagan

  Letting Go, Moving, Eye

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• Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?

  Veronica Roth

  Want, Ifs

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• Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Cat, Eye, Dust

  Charles Baudelaire (1991). “The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems”, Boa Editions

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• She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

  Edith Wharton

  Loneliness, Sky, Light

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.495, Delphi Classics

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