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The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere. — Sloane Crosley
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else… — H. L. Mencken
With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. — Brad Pitt
I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your… — Lou Reed
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. — John Steinbeck
Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator,… — Archibald MacLeish
His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded… — Joseph Conrad
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what… — Philip Pullman
No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are… — Annie Dillard
It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in… — Cormac McCarthy
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing… — Paul Auster
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up… — Virginia Woolf
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like;… — Charles de Lint
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One… — Anne Rice
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than… — Kate Atkinson
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and… — Yann Martel
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The… — Victor Hugo
Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable. — Orson Scott Card
People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering… — Ayn Rand
And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to… — Mariama BÃ¢
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside. — Elie Wiesel
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and… — Anne Rice

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