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«Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.»

Author: W. Stanley Jevons | About: Value | Keywords: dense, denser, ghosts, impalpable, invincible, unthought-of, unthought

«I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.»

Author: Joseph Conrad | Keywords: clamor, clamoring, contest, grayness, Great Fear, impalpable, spectators, underfoot, unexciting, wrestled, wrestles

«I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.»

Author: Charles Baudelaire (Poet) | Keywords: card, gambled, impalpable, insouciance, mislaid, stroll, strolled, visiting, visiting card

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