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Sangram Takmoge
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self-contained illusion of reality rendered from a consistently held point of view and through a central intelligence from which all authorial comment has been exorcised. Quite the opposite happens in Nabokov’s fiction: his art must be seen
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“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!”
― Père Goriot
― Père Goriot
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.”
― The One-Straw Revolution
― The One-Straw Revolution
“However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?”
― Père Goriot
― Père Goriot
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