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Subtlety Quotes
"Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."
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Sun Tzu
"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
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Victor Hugo
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question"
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Albert Camus
"In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates - and isolation brings its own reward"
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Charles Baudelaire
"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
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Herman Melville
"Art tells you what's beyond, without explicitly telling you"
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Jordan Peterson
"Men do change and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass"
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John Steinbeck