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“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“When he thought of all he’d seen, done and experienced in his life, all he’d gained, lost, desired and agonized over, he found it…

— D.E. Sievers

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

“He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking to return…

— Ashim Shanker

“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a…

— Deszö Kosztolányi

“Every man and woman he saw, even at a distance, gave him a twist of panic. But he had already grown used to that;…

— V.S. Naipaul

“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Man detaches himself from his surroundings; he feels alone; abandoned, ignorant of everything except that he knows nothing... His first feeling thus was existential…

— Anonymous

“Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with his mind…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“His mind turned, gradually comprehending, memories flooding his awareness that were not his own: memories from the timelessness before the Being within him had…

— J. Valor