Clarice Lispector
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning."
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Single Word
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought"
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases."
Lauren Oliver
Author
"Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge."
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"Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it."
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"A single word often betrays a great design."
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