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A wealthy man in ancient Egypt would never have dreamed of solving a relationship crisis by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might have built for her the sumptuous tomb she had always wanted.
“Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being -- not a constant state -- that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.”
― The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
― The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
“I felt the distance and stillness of that sprawled dawn like some endless sky waking inside me, flared against the laughter.”
― Underworld
― Underworld
“It’s the kind of human junk that deepens the landscape, makes it sadder and lonelier and places a vague sad subjective regret at the edge of your response—not regret so much as a sense of time’s own esthetic, how strange and still and beautiful a chunk of concrete can be, lived in fleetingly and abandoned, the soul of wilderness signed by men and women passing through.”
― Underworld
― Underworld
“In a country that’s in a hurry to make the future, the names attached to the products are an enduring reassurance.”
― Underworld
― Underworld
“That’s what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.”
― Let the Great World Spin
― Let the Great World Spin
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