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- Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the religious temperament.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
(Wallace Stegner, "Angle of Repose")
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- They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
(William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury")
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- Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.
(William Peter Blatty, "The Exorcist")
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- It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends - the stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing.
(Zadie Smith, "White Teeth")
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- When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- This story is not all mine, nor told by me alone. Indeed, I am not sure whose story it is; you can judge better. But it is all one, and if at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them is false, and it is all one story.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness")
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- In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the misery of the child.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- The reflection of a fact is in itself a fact.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
(Victor Hugo, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame")
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- In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.
(Virginia Woolf, "Orlando")
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