Sunday Sentence: 'The Woman Upstairs'

This week's Sunday Sentence, presented as David Abrams says at The Quivering Pen, because it's the best sentence I've read this week, out of context and without commentary:
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate.

-- Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs