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It has been a long, long slog . . . not as long for me as for Max Aue, the narrator of this massive thing. To call him the "hero" of the "tale" would be obscene, as he is no hero, and this is no tale . . . an inventory, perhaps, of the suffering to w
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“The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself as a ghastly risk, and, in the case of the vast majority of human beings, an inconceivable misfortune.”
― Oldtown Folks
― Oldtown Folks
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
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“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.”
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