“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.”
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“...the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant pat and whose unconsciousness I should very soon return to share.”
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“He chanced to be in a lucid critical mood, and would not sympathize with exaltation.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“My dear," she had said to Mamma, "I could not bring myself to give the child anything that was not well written,”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“On every face was written that they had only just discovered some extremely important secret.”
― Demons
― Demons
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