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— Diane de Poitiers"... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high."
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The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
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In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.
— Barbara Holland
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