“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
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“She must still discover that myths are basic truths twisted into mnemonics, instructions posted from the past, memories waiting to become predictions.”
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“the dreary soon-to-be radiologists and urologists in half an inch of eyeliner bursting into gleeful song—was to see what they might have done with their lives had their lives belonged only to them.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
“It must be a comfort, having them with you,” Andrea said to him, not of his children but of his paintings.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
“Let other trees do the work of the world. Let the Beech stand, where still it holds its ground”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries!—Think of our life in nature,—daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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