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“What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father recreated in his models... None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.”
― The Simple Art of Murder
― The Simple Art of Murder
“Was this stab in my heart, this rapture, really mine or had I merely read about it? For every feeling, every vicissitude of my passion, there would spring into my mind a quotation from the poets. Shakespeare or Donne or Heine had the exact phrase for it. Comforting, perhaps, but enraging too. Nothing ever seemed spontaneously my own.”
― Olivia
― Olivia
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