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• She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were.

  Ann Brashares

  Thinking, Different, Hey

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Last Summer (of You & Me)”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• I think Bernie Sanders understands better than anyone the chasm that exists between a Democratic - the Democrats and the Republicans when it comes to being there for America's working families, and that's what he's about, and that's what we're about as Democrats.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Thinking, America, Being There

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Sea, Whips

  "Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause". Documentary, War, 2003.

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• The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Ignorance, Sound, Depth

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.

  Rick Riordan

  Bridges, Delight, Next

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.421, Penguin UK

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• There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.

  Isaac Marion

  Feelings, World, Gaps

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Crazy, Thinking

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Sleep, Men, Night

  H. P. Lovecraft (2011). “H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection”, p.319, Boris Lariushin

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• Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wise, Mother, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.125, Cornell University Press

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• There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.

  David Travis

  Light, Imagination, Darkness

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• Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Bridges, Giving, Feelings

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go! Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge.

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, Ice, Wind

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• My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

  Edvard Munch

  Fall, Jumping, Trying

  Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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• Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the funeral that are over too quickly, or the conversations among the cognoscenti, those of us who recognize in one another a kindred chasm deep in the center of who we are.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sex, Grief, Silence

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.157, Random House

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• To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

  Louise Penny

  Offending, Voice, People

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• The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.

  Christopher Tolkien

  Philosophical, Impact, Overwhelmed

  "Why JRR Tolkien's Son Hates What Peter Jackson Has Done" by Devin Faraci, Birth.Movies.Death, birthmoviesdeath.com. January 9, 2013.

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• There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

  David Eagleman

  Brain, Mind, Looming

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.50, Canongate Books

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• I’d ask you to hang out with us, but you’re not supposed to see me this way.’… ‘What way?’ I ask. ‘Drunk?’ ‘Yeah…well, no.’ His voice softens. ‘Real, I guess.’ ‘I’ll pretend I didn’t.’ ‘Nice of you.’ He puts his lips next to my ear and says, ‘You look good, Tris.’… I laugh. ‘Do me a favor and stay away from the chasm, okay?’ ‘Of course.’ He winks at me.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Nice, Voice

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• That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Lying, Reality

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.804, e-artnow

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• Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.

  Ian Mcewan

  Ideas, Execution, Lays

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

  Karen Russell

  Summer, Rain, Sleep

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• Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Communication, Successful, Yawning

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• There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.

  B. W. Powe

  Concern, Seems

  "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.

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• If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

  Kevin Cashman

  Leadership, Bridges, Building

  Kevin Cashman (2008). “Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Kindness, Desire, Would Be

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.17, The Floating Press

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