"Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time."
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"Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven."
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"The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed."
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"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."
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"When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives."
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"It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature."
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"I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me."
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"Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight."
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"She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me."
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"Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be."
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"In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers."
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"Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It's a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?"
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"We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans."
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"In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That's what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won't do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss."
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"Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction."
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"To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished."
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"whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable."
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"Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play."
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"Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]."
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