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“Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.”

Sea Land Ocean Remains Edges Boundaries Belonging Shore Swings Tides Elusive Indefinable Dual Nature

Book:The Edge of the Sea

Source: The Edge of the Sea

“I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.”

Knows Feels Looks Stills Language Darkness Remains Cinema Filmmaker Giants Admiration Elusive Cinematic Hitchcock

Author:Toby Jones

“Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.”

Wells Evil Remains Lays Ceo Elusive Enron Kenneth Mastermind

Author:David Letterman

“Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.”

Men Interest Objects Essence Remains Individuality Devotion Instance Mysterious Patriotic Comment Historian Legends Abraham Elusive Biographers

Book:The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown

Source: The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown

“I wrote much more quickly when I was younger. Over the years I've required more time in order for the pieces to arrive in a place I am happy with. The process cannot be rushed. I have to live with a piece for quite a while to feel it ultimately is where it needs to be - though anything resembling complete satisfaction remains elusive.”

Needs Feels Years Order Process Pieces Remains Satisfaction More Time Elusive

Author:Michael Hersch

“Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.”

Want Mind Water Remains Slips Vague Fragments Elusive

Author:Daido Moriyama

“It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.”

Source: Lord Jim

“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.”

Way Self Known Remains Painful Extremes Intellect Mood Description Disorder Elusive Verge

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.”

Mean Doe Age Spirit Spirituality Grows Willing Birth Weak Remains Flesh Mysterious Mysticism Elusive

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.”

Ifs Stories Found Deals Share Remains Terrific Elusive Coups

Author:Manohla Dargis