Quote by Eric Hoffer
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painte

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. – Eric Hoffer

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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. – Eric Hoffer

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Obscurity is the realm of error. – Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. – Mark Twain

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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

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The minds passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. – Adrienne Rich

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