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“Venice can wash through you all the memories you have never made.”
― The Way Back to Florence
― The Way Back to Florence
“Do we ever give anyone the gift they actually want?”
― By Nightfall
― By Nightfall
“Human lives...are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence... into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Venice is a Dorian Gray city. Somewhere up there in the world's attic, there's another place with the haggard, poxed and ravaged face of unspeakable evil. And I suspect it's Cardiff.”
― Table Talk
― Table Talk
“You'd like to think the death of a person is like the death of a star, that it will enrich the cosmos with precious elements, with added meaning.”
― The War in Venice
― The War in Venice
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