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The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. — Robert Kelly

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason. — Matthew Bourne

You are like a cloud
Glimpsed between the branches. In your eyes there shines
The strangeness of a sky that isn't yours. — Cesare Pavese

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated. — Paul Gauguin

Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope. — Antoine Volodine

You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried. — Audrey Niffenegger

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that. — Carrie Brownstein

Topaz is beautiful - largely because of the strangeness of her face. — Dodie Smith

If there's one thing I have learned it's that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange — Sarah-Kate Lynch

Develop your legitimate strangeness. — Rene Char

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty. — Charles Baudelaire

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us. — Charles Baudelaire

Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world — Sarah Perry

there is no beauty without some strangeness. — Edgar Allan Poe

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. — Lynn Barber

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us. — Alain De Botton

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels

strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit — Meg Wolitzer

HIGH STRANGENESS: 2/10. Aside from mind-control rays affecting one out of every thirty Americans, this isn't all that strange. — Monte Cook

She must have seen more of my charm than my strangeness tonight. — Stephanie Kuehn

There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them. — Julia Quinn

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness. — Robbie Williams

and you and I left
with the same old question
the sheer unspeakable strangeness
of being here at all — Robin Williamson

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. — Sebastian Smee

We will revel in hardships and welcome strangeness. — Dan Simmons

Everyone's childhood is strange. It prepares you for the strangeness of adulthood." Riley — Janet Evanovich

Oh, stop it, I tell myself. Stop looking for links and meaning and explanations. What did De Chirico say? The world is a museum of strangeness. — Kirsty Eagar

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world! — Emily Bronte

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun ... — Jim Morrison

The strangeness and absurdity of these replies arise from the fact that modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one asks. — Leo Tolstoy

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true! — Guy Gavriel Kay

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets — Patricia Cornwell

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself. — Jonathan Franzen

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte. — Mary Ellen Mark

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness. — Carew Papritz

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. — Douglas Adams

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too. — Robert M. Pirsig

To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness. — Sara Genn

I had melancholy thoughts...
a strangeness in my mind,
A feeling that I was not for that hour,
Nor for that place. — William Wordsworth

You have to admit that this is a very strange life. If you don't admit it, then you have a very high threshold for strangeness, and more power to you. — Art Hochberg

But once he got over the astounding strangeness of his new life (it took him about a week), he suddenly realized he was simply on a long holiday. — Milan Kundera

I wanted something altogether wilder, the clumsier romance of strangeness. — Paul Theroux

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty. — Harold Bloom

She and I seem to be more alike than not, acutely aware of the strangeness of the world and charmed by it's mysteries. — Dean Koontz

The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity — Cesar Aira

Sometimes I think that's all love is. Understanding, smoothing away your strangeness. Making you part of the world, not separate from it. — Alexis Hall

This is the paradoxical responsibility of the reader: to replenish the strangeness of the novel by making connections with the familiar. — Norma Field

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. — Walter Hagen

She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself. — Fatema Mernissi

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood - the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see. — Maurice Sendak

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness — Sophocles

Morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness. — Jean Rhys

And as for that strangeness in your gut, that comes from you, not the Lord. When you were a child you had worms. As likely as not you have them again. — Flannery O'Connor

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. — Giorgio De Chirico

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable. — Allison Tolman

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. — Karl Lagerfeld

Only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and how odd, odd, odd it is! — John Crowley

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life. — Ciaran Hinds

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same. — Gregory Maguire

Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. — Edwin Muir

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness. — Rose Macaulay

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. — Veronica Roth

Familiar vs. Strange [10w]
The sexiest part of strangeness is its most familiar quality. — Beryl Dov

And in the mean time my songs will travel,
And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
when they have got over the strangeness — Ezra Pound

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth — Flannery O'Connor

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. — Anthony Doerr

In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever tried to think. — F Scott Fitzgerald

He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape? — Greg Bear

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself. — William Least Heat-Moon

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. — Graham Greene

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. — Libba Bray

The thrush called strangeness into the sunset. — Georg Trakl

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality. — Jean Lorrain

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance

Will you tolerate
the strangeness inside of me,
the quirks of my soul? — Tyler Knott Gregson

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time. — T.L. Rese

There is no exquisite beauty ... without some strangeness in the proportion. — Edgar Allan Poe

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. — David Allee

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing. — Jason Schwartzman

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. — Miguel Syjuco

We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are. — Ovid

The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions ... Ligeia — Edgar Allan Poe

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others. — Rachel Joyce

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. — Trevor McDonald

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future. — Warren Ellis

All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home. — Harold Bloom

As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant. — Nathan Lane

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. — Dan Simmons

I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it. — Katherine Rundell

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. — Charles Baudelaire

In my family strange is relative. — Kate Rockland

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. — Markus Zusak

People are strange . . . — Jim Morrison

The answer you may be seeking, to the questions which have caused you to ponder over the strangeness of life, maybe found in your own mind, — Napoleon Hill

I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves — Rita Dove