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• There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to you now.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Clever, Hate, Heart

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.

  Clive Barker

  Grief, True Joy, Remember

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Nov 21, 2012

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• Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

  Gail Carriger

  Meaningful, Ivy, Gestures

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• Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Water, Obscurity

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• Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

  James A. Baldwin

  Echoes, Desire, Causes

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• The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks? The sages and prophets, the disciples and revolutionaries, they are the ones up on the ramparts, up on the wall pointing to the dawn of the new Kingdom coming, pointing to the light that breaks through all things broken, pointing to redemption always rising and to the Blazing God who never sleeps.

  Ann Voskamp

  Wall, Sleep, Dark

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• The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.

  Flora Rheta Schreiber

  Attitude, People, Feelings

  Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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• She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

  David Levithan

  Loneliness, Bad Relationship, Desperate

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

  Victor Hugo

  Lasts, Firsts, Thousand

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.

  Edith Wharton

  Loneliness, Winter, Silence

  Ethan Frome preface (1911)

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• My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade away for my eyes restores me as a complete image for the unreal eye to which I deny all images. A complete image with reference to a world devoid of image which imagines me in the absence of any imaginable figure. The being of a nonbeing of which I am the infinitely small negation which it instigates as its profound harmony. In the night shall I become the universe?

  Maurice Blanchot

  Eye, Night, Views

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• A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

  John Green

  Thinking, Like Love, Cheesy

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.95, Penguin

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• Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

  Stephen Crane

  Awakening, Sometimes, Moments

  Stephen Crane (2004). “The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold complexities—its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what has happened to us.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Light, Darkness, Astonishment

  "The Moment: A Novel".

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• To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

  Marcel Proust

  Real, Book, Heart

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• She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.

  Douglas Adams

  Hair, Understanding, Secret

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• ...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

  Melody Beattie

  Pain, Loving Someone, Trouble

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.5, Hazelden Publishing

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• I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies." pg. xvi

  Maureen Corrigan

  Book, Heart, Thinking

  Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage

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• To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live. I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on.

  Alaya Dawn Johnson

  Life, Hate, Mean

  Alaya Dawn Johnson (2013). “The Summer Prince”, p.95, Scholastic Inc.

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• In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.

  Art Spiegelman

  Reality, Childhood, Scare

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• Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Quilts, Feet, Hands

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• The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silence, Faults

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Wind, Giving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mother, Thinking, Creating

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.516, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

  Dave Brubeck

  Inspirational, Hate, Love You

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