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“The confidence of youth, which knows that it can never die, lifted her into a bright sphere.”
― What Is Told
― What Is Told
“Were we not standing atop the birthplace of a certain kind of religious nationalism? Zion lay all around us. See where the Prophet left this earth, where Christ rose from the dead, where the Messiah would, finally, appear. Which of us, in this war, was not Judas to someone?”
― Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
― Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
“she surrenders her bulk to the wicker armchair, which, out of sheer fright, bursts into a salvo of crackling.”
― Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
― Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
“Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance, no more real than a television drama. Death, who now stood by her side, was as familiar to her as a family member, missing for a long time but now returned.”
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“And let me not leave out the moon—for surely there must be a moon, the full, incredibly clear disc that goes so well with Russian lusty frosts. So there it comes, steering out of a flock of small dappled clouds, which it tinges with a vague iridescence; and, as it sails higher, it glazes the runner tracks left on the road, where every sparkling lump of snow is emphasized by a swollen shadow.”
― Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
― Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
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