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• I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?

  J. K. Rowling

  Doe, Done, Said

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• Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn't always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.

  Dan Chaon

  Mistake, Sleep, Eye

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• "Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Objectivity, Might, Subjectivity

  "Fictional character: Sigismundo Celine". The Historical Illuminatus book series, 1982-1991.

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• It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we've been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.

  Gary L. Blackwood

  Real, Moving, Player

  Gary L. Blackwood (2003). “Shakespeare's Spy”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• Her life was beginning to make sense again, although she couldn’t say she was enjoying it. But her mind was clear, and her heart was not constantly as heavy. Only when she thought about him. But she knew that in time, she’d survive it. She had done it before and would again. Eventually the heart repairs.

  Danielle Steel

  Heart, Mind, Done

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• What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Believe, Heart, Mind

  "Bridging the Heart and Mind". Interview with Danielle DuRant, rzim.org. July 28, 2011.

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• Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

  Gary Zukav

  Reality, Views, Doe

  "The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics". Book by Gary Zukav, March, 1979.

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• Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Meaningfulness

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense. Rutabaga.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Silly, Book, Fantasy Novels

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.74, Macmillan

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• The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Confusion, Chance

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• Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Different, Way, Perks

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Real, Princess

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

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• Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Powerful, Attitude, Our World

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• Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dream, Reality, Other Worlds

  Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.78, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wall, Yelling, Long

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.39, Hamilton Books

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• In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

  Kate Atkinson

  World, Belief, Ends

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.379, St. Martin's Press

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• He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Love Is, Law

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.55, HarperCollins UK

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• Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity. We all are, I suppose. Trying to invent our version of the story. All human odes are essentially one, "My life; what I stole from history, and how I live with it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Shoes, Feet, Trying

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• I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

  Scarlett Thomas

  Reality, Life Is Like, Stories

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• It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.

  Claudia Gray

  Cute, Baby, Fall

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• I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.

  Janet Fitch

  Light, Hopeful, Mind

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.

  William P. Young

  Reality, Data, Normal

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• As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  School, Trying, Stories

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• Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

  Joseph Heller

  Disappear, Grammar, Knows

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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• The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

  William Gibson

  Past, Trying, Looks

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.54, Penguin

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