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“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“So quick bright things come to confusion.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. ” Albert Camus, The Stranger
“She confused in her desire the sensualities of luxury with the delights of the heart, elegance of manners with delicacy of sentiment.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Prejudice is a burden which confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
“It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen, and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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