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“Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.”

Life Father Dark Our Lives Strange Display Electric

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.”

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Book:Feast of Stephen

Source: Feast of Stephen

“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?”

Life Littles Whole Life Is Strange One Day Customs Warning Cynical Uncertain Geography Orderly Day Life

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.”

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Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!”

Men Life Strange Providence

Book:The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner

Source: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner