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“Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purposes.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“If the world were clear, art would not exist.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“You are bound to go up and down, just as I did in my youth, but do keep your clarity of mind, and if fools or sages dare to criticise don't blame yourself too much.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“If the gods think to speak outright to man, they will honorably speak outright; not shake their heads, and give an old wives' darkling hint.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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