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“A youth can allow itself to be somewhat pleasant with us, since it's so convinced, that it's gonna be free the day after our funeral.”
― The Leopard
― The Leopard
“the animal had died tortured by anxious hopes of salvation, imagining it could still escape when it was already caught, just like so many human beings.”
― The Leopard
― The Leopard
“The essence of dietrologia is that it dismisses the notion that anyone could act purely for reasons of moral conviction.”
― The Italians
― The Italians
“Only one story—the story of the dinosaurs themselves—had a happy ending. Happy in comparison, at any rate. Dinosaurs will be famous forever, first of all, and, what is more important, they were granted an enviable finale. Dinosaurs reigned unchallenged for an unimaginable one hundred million years. Then, in a cataclysm that reverberated around the globe, with no warning, no foreboding, no lingering, they vanished.”
― Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
― Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
“Remember the fairy tales, all the witches and wizards with their houses in the woods. Maybe they want privacy for their work. Maybe there is something about the places they choose to live. Maybe the world is thinner there. Maybe they can hear the sounds they are listening for more clearly.”
― The Fisherman
― The Fisherman
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