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“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It wasn’t that God didn’t know what was going on…omniscience being what it is. He just tried his best not to read too far…

— Sean Patrick Brennan

“So help me God it gets more and more preposterous, it corresponds less and less to what I remember and what I expect as…

— John Cheever

“At the time, it seemed everything was falling apart by no reason. My mind was dramatic in its ignorant stage. I knew nothing of…

— Brandi Gomez

“But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land,…

— Mervyn Peake

“The present seemed suddenly strange to me, so trivial and distracted. I felt like one of those mythical heroes who fights his way back…

— Ransom Riggs

“...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few…

— Gene Edwards

“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate…

— Cormac McCarthy

“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo…

— Jack Kerouac

“They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they’d believed in was…

— George Orwell

“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

“And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes, like puzzle pieces from the clay.”

— The Postal Service