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“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
“I got the pictures with the names, and they match the passport photos and names from Madrid. How did you get the manager to help?”
― Fatal Identity
― Fatal Identity
“Mr. Sampson, you forget the difference between Plato and Zenocrates.”
― Guy Mannering
― Guy Mannering
“All these grotesque incongruities between the richness of the world perceivable by smell and the poverty of language were enough for the lad Grenouille to doubt that language made any sense at all;”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“Carson’s thesis that we were subjecting ourselves to slow poisoning by the misuse of chemical pesticides that polluted the environment may seem like common currency now, but in 1962 Silent Spring contained the kernel of social revolution.”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
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