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“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“He was a complicated man, and an unhappy one. But he knew also that the world was full of simple miracles.”

— Helen Macdonald

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“...his ridiculousness was a form of vitality.”

— Rachel Kushner

“with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the…

— Gaston Leroux

“He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“How deeply (beyond words) he speaks to us about the mysteries of our common human nature. And how unstrained and easy his greatness is.”

— Saul Bellow

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“It never failed to astonish him, then or ever, how much of the world around him was mysterious and hidden from view.”

— Lev Grossman