Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness."
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Inexplicable
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Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear."
Joan Didion
Author, Essayist
"any compulsion tries to justify itself."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."
Joan Didion
Author, Essayist
"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it"
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"A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable."
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"A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing."
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