Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the moon. But it is frightening and essentially “unlike” man as he knows himself familiarly, so we spend all our days living at the other antipodes of ourself.

~ Patricia Highsmith

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Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

~ Amos Bronson Alcott

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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

~ William James

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.

~ Jonathan Galassi

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