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“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god?”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
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