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- Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains… — William Stanley Jevons
- Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but… — Norman Mailer
- Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present,… — Stephen Mitchell
- The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no… — Karl Jaspers
- Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between… — Octavio Paz
- I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The… — Charles Baudelaire
- A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven"… — George William Russell
- Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.… — Octavio Paz
- Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web… — Barbara Kingsolver
- Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends… — Walt Whitman
- What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my… — Pablo Neruda