Impenetrable Quotes

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...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable… — Muriel Barbery
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every… — Aldous Huxley
Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at… — Pittacus Lore
As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition… — Jon Ronson
I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between… — Patrick deWitt
It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable… — Truman Capote
As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable â€œsomething else,â€ but now it was the opposite. Here,… — Laini Taylor
His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. — Victor Hugo
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable. — Lionel Shriver
I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret… — Jim Butcher
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved — Iris Murdoch
One thing I knew about the novelistâ€™s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank… — Philip Sington
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and… — Victor Hugo
He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.… — James A. Baldwin
Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable. "Max?" "Yes?" "Will… — Nalini Singh
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to… — Marcel Proust
The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim,… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to… — Mark Barrowcliffe
Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle. — Rafael Correa
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general… — Thomas Day

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