You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.
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David Levithan
She is the sort of person who can do things she doesn’t know yet. There are things you know you know and you know you don’t know and you don’t know you know and you don’t know you don’t know. She may not know what...
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Thomm Quackenbush
I know a great number of things, though never all at once or for very long.
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Thomm Quackenbush
When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.
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Mahrukh
Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.
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Napz Cherub Pellazo
More Quotes By Lionel Trilling
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing them on his fellow man.
Consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective, ” he says, but “Flaubert’s objectivity is charged with irritability and Tolstoy’s with affection. For Flaubert everyone and everything is somehow at fault. For Tolstoy everyone and everything has a saving...
Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should be praising sportsmanship and gentlemanliness and dutifulness and physical courage....
At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification. Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought to exclude...
