← "Draw him? Him? How can one draw a man who doesn't exist?" 🔊
← Anybody who knew him would have recognized the portrait at a glance, but nobody who didn't know him would have recognized the portrait from its bystander: it "existed" so much more than he; it was bound to. 🔊
← "Try," was the prayer he threw back at me as the devil pushed him roughly out through the door—"Try to make them know that I did exist!" 🔊
← There was something rather ghastly to me in the general unconsciousness that Soames had existed, and more than once I caught myself wondering whether Nupton, that babe unborn, were going to be right in thinking him a figment of my brain. 🔊