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“Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family that for…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I cannot even hint what it was like, for it was a compound of all that is unclean, uncanny, unwelcome, abnormal, and detestable. It…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“After listening in, Franny had decided that magic was not so very far from science. Both endeavors searched for meaning where there was none,…

— Alice Hoffman

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“Her soliloquy crystallized itself into little fragmentary phrases emerging suddenly from the turbulence of her thought, particularly when she had to exert herself in…

— Virginia Woolf

“Initially, a simple phrase chased round and round in Cecilia's thoughts: Of course, of course. How had she not seen it? Everything was explained.…

— Ian McEwan

“We were quite naturally unhappy; feeling a definite need, unbearably keen at moments, which was never to be satisfied. But that was recognizable pain,…

— Virginia Woolf

“Francisca recognized that she was decoding an entire process, detail by detail. She was learning a certain alphabet, a geography, a language which would…

— Kate Braverman

“There were no words that could convey what she had so recently discovered. That each instant was an eternity, each breath a whole life;…

— Muriel Maufroy

“Visigoth and Gaul, politics and plague. She fought on, struggling in tandem with antiquated interpretations and outmoded explanations, wondering at the senselessness of something…

— Douglas Sterling

“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct us, that…

— Immanuel Kant

“When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what she did…

— Gustave Flaubert