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“There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.”
― The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
― The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
“She leaned back in the bed and smiled, feeling excited at the prospect; feeling hope.”
― Moloka'i
― Moloka'i
“The sun in its slow descent filtered great cathedral-moats of gold through latticed boughs of pine and birch and maple. It was that time of day- or afternoon- when the forest's breath, sun-stunned, yearning for night, impalpably swoons to the slow pulsations of blood and time and silence.”
― Night of the Aurochs
― Night of the Aurochs
“Most people relate to themselves as storytellers. They usually have no use for poems, and although the occasional “because” or “in order that” gets knotted into the thread of life, they generally detest any brooding that goes beyond that; they love the orderly sequence of facts because it has the look of necessity, and the impression that their life has a “course” is somehow their refuge from chaos. It now came to Ulrich that he had lost his elementary, narrative mode of thought to which private life still clings, even though everything in public life has already ceased to be narrative and no longer follows a thread, but instead spreads out as an infinitely interwoven surface.”
― The Man Without Qualities
― The Man Without Qualities
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