Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.
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About Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins was a 19th-century English novelist and playwright. William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1860), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it