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Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

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Aug 01, 2014 05:04PM

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The Flamethrowers

by Rachel Kushner (Goodreads Author)

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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

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Bernard’s Quotes

“The dead live."
"How do they live?"
"By love.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: dead, love

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“I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons”
― Adrienne Rich

tags: miss, trust

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“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”
― Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

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“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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