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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Miscellaneous
Source: Quotation #32866 from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:
Billy the Kid (1859–1881) American cattle rustler, gambler, horse thief, outlaw, cowboy and ranch hand
Billy the Kid's comment to a Las Vegas Gazette reporter (December, 1880)<br> About Billy the Kid website http://www.aboutbillythekid.com/index.html
“And you suppose that, knowing how I have changed, he will believe that!”
F. Anstey (1856–1934) English novelist and journalist
she cried. “He will fire long before you can finish one of those fine sentences!”
Source: Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885), Chapter 8, “Paid in His Own Coin”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
“We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them.”
Mario Vargas Llosa book The Time of the Hero
The Time of the Hero (1963)
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer
Quoted in German Mystical Writings: Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme, and Others (1991), edited by Karen J. Campbell
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) Socialite, actress, model
Edie : American Girl (1982)
Context: Everything that happened to me has been a paradox for life. The very things that I should have done would have been the trap. The very things I might have given into, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I found hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. You have to work like mad to make people understand... Even if I don't make it, you know, I really insist on believing, and then I fall off the edge because there's nobody else to follow it. And I would just fall off the edge.
