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“After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid -…

— Kim White

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

— Helen Macdonald

“He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was…

— Kaya McLaren

“He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within…

— Victor Hugo

“He was not so lucky. He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing the hold dearest to their hearts,…

— Gregory Maguire

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

“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

“What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?”

— Madeleine Thien

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of…

— John Williams

“You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem…

— Herman Melville

“the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.”

— Paul Scott