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«Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.»
«Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.»
«Sin is whatever obscures the soul.»
«In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Critic,
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«There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.»
«Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.»
«Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity»
«His form had yet not lost / All her original brightness, nor appeared / Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess / Of glory obscured.»
Author: John Milton
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Historian,
Poet,
Scholar)
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«What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.»
Author: William Blake
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Engraver,
Mystic,
Painter,
Poet)
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