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“Men, conceptually, are canceled,” Libby said to her knees. “This Society? Founded by men, I guarantee it. Kill someone for initiation? A man’s idea. Totally male.”
― The Atlas Six
― The Atlas Six
“The last lights were undulating on the standing green water of the pool. Discovering the sublime in the trivial, the invisible underneath the tangible—she herself completely disarmed as if in that instant she'd learned that her ability to uncover the secrets of natural life was still intact. And also disarmed by the slight anguish that came to her when she felt she could uncover other secrets too, perhaps a mortal secret. But she knew she was ambitious: she'd scorn easy success and want, though she was afraid, to rise higher and higher or descend lower and lower.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“But that was the hardest thing about death: the unrelenting march of time forward, away from the person you’ve lost.”
― The Cloisters
― The Cloisters
“And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before.
[Ann Stilwell]”
― The Cloisters
[Ann Stilwell]”
― The Cloisters
“The heart must present itself alone to the Nothing and alone beat out in silence its palpitations in the shadows. You only sense your own heart in your ears. When it presents itself completely naked, it’s not even communication, it’s submission. For we were only made for the little silence, not for the silence of the stars.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
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