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like certain skies painted with an almost Parisian modernity by Mantegna or Veronese, beneath which could be accomplished only some solemn and tremendous act, such as a departure by train or the Elevation of the Cross.
“Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about 18, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which is itself beauty, irrespective of complexion or contour.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.”
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
― Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
“As we all know, time sometimes flies like a bird, and sometimes
crawls like a worm, but people may be unusually happy when they do not
even notice whether time has passed quickly or slowly”
― Fathers and Sons
crawls like a worm, but people may be unusually happy when they do not
even notice whether time has passed quickly or slowly”
― Fathers and Sons
“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
Dennis E. Perkins’s 2025 Year in Books
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