“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“In my view, all art begins in that instant of intuitive preference.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
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“Only one who loves can remember so well.”
― Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
― Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
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