"The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness,……" — Theodore Dreiser

The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . .… - Theodore Dreiser

"The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why."

— Theodore Dreiser

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