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everything appears possible to the condemned man, to whom a miracle becomes an everyday occurrence when it is a question of saving his life.
“Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“Maybe we try to find them in other people. In kindness and generosity; those things don't disappear.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.”
― The Prestige
― The Prestige
“She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
“Those smooth, spit-cleaned cheeks gave no indication of the dreams crowding her skull. Should she make it to adulthood, the girl would arrive with two hundred and six bones. Two and a half million sweat glands. Ninety-six thousand kilometers of blood vessels. Forty-six chromosomes. Seven meters of small intestines. Six hundred and six discrete muscles. One hundred billion cerebral neurons. Two kidneys. A liver. A heart. A hundred trillion cells that died and were replaced, again and again. But no matter how many ways she dismembered and quantified the body lying beside her, she couldn't say how many years the girl would wait before she married, if at all, or how many children she would have, if any; and between the creation of this body and its end lay the mystery the girl would spend her life solving.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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