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“It is memory that is the somnambulist. It will come back in its wounds from across the world, like Phil, calling us by our names and demanding its rightful tears. It will never be impervious. The memory can be hurt, time and again -- but in that may lie its final mercy. As long as it's vulnerable to the living moment, it lives for us, and while it lives, and while we are able, we can give it up its due.”
― The Optimist's Daughter
― The Optimist's Daughter
“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
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“A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear.”
― Libra
― Libra
“If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris
“He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its way through the ear down the throat, halfway to my heart. He would then disappear, leaving me choking with equipment. What I mean is, I sat down on the library steps and he went away.”
― Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
― Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
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