“… the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
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Jorge Luis Borges book Ficciones
"Funes the Memorious" ["Funes El Memorioso"] (1944); also published in Labyrinths (1964)
Ficciones (1944)
“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
"God's Grandeur," line 10
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning
Source: Alternating Current (1967)
Context: If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Variant: Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down."”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Pyrrho, 8.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 9: Uncategorized philosophers and Skeptics