Quote by W.E.B. Du Bois

“until I accept the world for exactly what it is: unfair, mean, graceful, luscious, and magically illogical.”

— BK Loren

“Moments of mystery are rare enough, in all conscience; and when they do arrive all the world misses them by trying to understand them.…

— Zona Gale

“There are few things, - whether in the outward world, or to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought, - few things…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We know so little about ourselves that we often neglect the illusions we create to distract us from finding the answers we need.”

— Robin Sacredfire

“Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.”

— Robin Hobb

“It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They…

— Lev Grossman

“Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is almost laughable to ponder upon where it all started and nearly grim and shameful when we realise as humans that we are…

— Santosh Kalwar

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most…

— Thomas Keneally