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“The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble...”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you even know the difference?”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son

“You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold Bug

“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky