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“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.” Bertrand Russell, “A History of Western Philosophy” - 1945

“There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to...” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent and moderate our persuasion.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“Constant revolution in production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.” Karl Marx, “Das Kapital” - 1867

“Uncertainty is worse than all.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.” Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” - 1859

“Happiness . . . must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

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