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“To attain the highth and depth of thy eternal ways all human thoughts come short, Supreme of things!” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“It does not follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at once, both sweet and deep.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.” Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
“I had rather fashion my soul than furnish it.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.” William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“Dreams . . . are often most profound when they seem most crazy.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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