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“She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.”
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
“She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.”
― Girl at Sea
― Girl at Sea
“You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.”
― The Last Little Blue Envelope
― The Last Little Blue Envelope
“[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know the story, the real story. And it is simple and cruel and true and it should make us laugh, it should make us die laughing. But we only know how to cry, the only thing we do wholeheartedly is cry.”
― By Night in Chile
― By Night in Chile
“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for sinful shadows who were careful not to interrupt me, careful not to disturb my reading, happiness, happiness, passion regained, genuine devotion, my prayers rising up and up through the clouds to the realm of pure music, to what for want of a better name we call the choir of the angels, a non-human space but undoubtedly the only imaginable space we humans can truly inhabit, an uninhabitable space but the only one worth inhabiting, a space in which we shall cease to be but the only space in which we can be what we truly are...”
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