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We all impose some coherence—some meaning—on the chaotic events of our existence. We rummage through the raw images of our memories, selecting, burnishing, erasing. We emerge as the heroes of our stories, allowing us to live with what we
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“So much had been breathed out by the pores that Tea Cake still was there. She could feel him and almost see him bucking around the room in the upper air. After a long time of passive happiness, she got up and opened the window and let Tea Cake leap forth and mount to the sky on a wind. That was the beginning of things.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Everything was done with clean hands in laundered shirts and embellished with French terms—and, above all, in the best possible company and consequently with the approval of the very best people.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man
― The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man
“way—he said he needed peace of mind, scrutinized everything that might disrupt his peace of mind, and the slightest disruption infuriated him.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man
― The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man
“In fact, however, the effect was the same as in the homes of all those people who are not quite rich enough, who want to look like the rich, and consequently look only like each other: damasks, mahogany, flowers, carpets and bronzes, dark woodstain and high polish—everything that people of a certain kind do to be like all other people of that certain kind. What he had was so similar to the norm that it did not even strike you, but to him everything seemed in some way extraordinary.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man
― The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man
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