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Virginia Woolf
“What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles,...” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Terry Pratchett
“Words are the litmus paper of the mind.” Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Margaret Atwood
“Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Alexandre Dumas
“so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Thomas Carlyle
“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an 'apocalypse of Nature,' a revealing of the 'open secret.'” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
William James
“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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