Que sais-je?
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Translation: "What know I?" or "What do I know?"
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The notion of skepticism is most clearly understood by asking this question.
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Book II, ch. 12.Michel de Montaigne
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She clearly does not enjoy being interviewed or asked to articulate in a formal way what are, to her, natural assumptions about her writing. She is sincere and helpful, but questions that are pompous or elaborate, or about personal life, or that might be interpreted as challenging her work, are liable to elicit only a simple “oui” or “non,” or “je ne sais pas— je ne sais pas du tout” — and then an amused, disconcerting smile.
Francoise Sagan
Aujourd'hui maman est morte. Ou peut-?tre hier, je ne sais pas.
Albert Camus
Someone arrived there — who lifted the veil of the goddess, at Sais. — But what did he see? He saw — wonder of wonders — himself.
Novalis
Il existe je ne sais quoi de grand et d'épouvantable dans le suicide.
Honore de Balzac
Ah jist shrugged, -- Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.
Irvine Welsh
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