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Mrs. Caliban
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The ocean was different from an aquarium, which was an artificial environment. The ocean was a world. And a world is not art.


“I only hoped that everything would be all right, though I would never be overwhelmed with satisfaction if that’s how it turned out.”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories

“That power he had to deplete things before getting them, that stark premonition he had of “afterward” . . . Before taking the first step toward action, he had already tasted the saturation and sorrow that follow victories”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
“because if you don’t agree often enough with the person you’re talking to, there’ll be trouble. People will think you’re a threat. They won’t trust you. Every woman knows this. Take Lucia de B. for instance, the nurse who didn’t smile or chat with her colleagues enough: people were immediately convinced she’d murdered seven patients. Seven! To think you can get a life sentence for being socially awkward.”
― Hard Copy
― Hard Copy

“Let us move to the only beginning I’ve a right to: my own.”
― Empire of Silence
― Empire of Silence

“Meanwhile, the people around me carried on serenely, their foreheads smooth and unworried, in a milieu where habit had long since opened the correct paths, where facts were reasonably explained by visible causes and the most extraordinary were connected, not through mysticism but through self-serving complacency, to God. The only events that could disturb their souls were birth, marriage, death and their attendant conditions.”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories

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