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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust

Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field. — Frederick Lenz

I'd heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance - even if faint - to their beginnings — Chigozie Obioma

When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness. — Barbara Katz Rothman

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. — Sydney J. Harris

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal. — Nicholas Of Cusa

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental. — Robert Anton Wilson

The resemblance of the signs of the zodiac to the animals after which they are named ... is as unimpressive as the predictions of astrologers. — Richard Dawkins

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. — Victor Hugo

Then again, I have Cyclopes and two-tailed mermen as siblings. I wasn't about to comment on the Kane kids' lack of resemblance. — Rick Riordan

Like many Vatican pronouncements, the official version of events would bear little resemblance to the truth. — Daniel Silva

Her name was Mary, and there ends any resemblance to the mother of our Lord. — Sue Monk Kidd

Any resemblance to actual — Emily March

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia. — Noam Chomsky

No man [ ... ] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself. — John Milton

Truth comes to us in resemblance, in shade. In moonlight. In grasping what exists through what we cannot make exist. — Patricia Storace

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. — Jean Cocteau

I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there. — Groucho Marx

We are ready to turn and twist the facts until they bear no resemblance to the original thing. — C.S. Lewis

You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things. It is the vulgar who note their resemblance. — Vladimir Nabokov

How could God design millions of new faces each day, keeping in mind the resemblance to the progenitor, who in turn was His genesis? — Shikha Kaul

Dawns in the dormitory had a suspicious resemblance to happiness. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Any resemblance to the names and characters of actual persons is entirely coincidental and unintended, unless you think otherwise. — K. Ceakou

Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other. — Stephen King

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil. — Tamora Pierce

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels. — Francoise Sagan

A whimsical choice, perhaps a dangerous choice, but a shadow should bear some resemblance to the shape that cast it. — Brent Weeks

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known. — Jean Cocteau

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance
— Robert A. Heinlein

Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling. — Cassandra Clare

Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, — Oscar Wilde

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi. — Brennan Manning

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside. — Robert Sommer

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance. — Victor Hugo

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity. — Ben Affleck

What's fair and what's true often bear no resemblance to each other. — Garon Whited

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance. — Wallace Stevens

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it. — Michael Medved

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak. — Edna Ferber

Little input of God's Word results in little resemblance to God's Son. — Donald S. Whitney

Any resemblance to real events, actual persons, or reality in general is entirely coincidental. — Scott Michael Decker

[The building] had been designed by an architect, so it bore little resemblance to any normal structure. — Gary Corby

Beowulf's Bane, an exotic glowing fungus that ate the flesh of elves, bore an uncanny resemblance to those of necrotizing fasciitis. — Peter Watts

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows. — Dodie Smith

A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great worls without — Henry James

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life. — Mason Cooley

Egypt prostrates towards Mecca whether willingly or unwillingly. Its resemblance is that of a shadow. And yet, its Sema is on its Stele. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. — Madame De Stael

Had no notion how much resemblance there was between what he was doing, and the original beliefs of the Iroquois, — Diana Gabaldon

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance. — Jean De La Bruyere

As tiny as she was, the resemblance sounded: her coloring, her eyes, her head cocked at the same angle and hair as red as his. — Donna Tartt

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.
She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. — Oscar Wilde

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. — Dee Remy

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. — Ronald Reagan

She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion. — Kevin Hearne

The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994. — Tucker Carlson

Careful, pot" Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle. — Rachel Vincent

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike. — Madame De Stael

I'm embarrassed to admit that I giggled slightly. The resemblance of his neck to a Pez dispenser was uncanny. — Pete Kahle

I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other ... — Marcel Proust

You will realize that those round, pinkish red things that are available in the stores bear no resemblance at all to the real tomato — Craig Lehoullier

Are you sure that we're related?" Lydia asked. "I see no resemblance at all. — Sarah Price

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer. — Angela Carter

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank. — E.W. Howe

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. — John French Sloan

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know. — Mindy McCready

Okay, so divers have mastered a large body of occult knowledge. That explains their general resemblance to hackers, albeit physically fit hackers. — Neal Stephenson

We understand through resemblance. — Mason Cooley

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so. — Faith Popcorn

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry. — Terry Eagleton

It is said that politics is the second-oldest profession in the world but that it bears a close resemblance to the oldest," said — James Patterson

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. — Ronald Reagan

The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them. — Michael Ian Black

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind. — Marcel Proust

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. — P.D. James

I am fortunate to be a resemblance, rather than a replication of who I was yesterday. — Rob Martin

The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea. — Polybius

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise. — Plato

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them. — Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. — Ambrose Bierce

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance. — Blaise Pascal

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Do others see something of Christ in your life? Do they see a "family resemblance" to Him by the way you live? — Billy Graham