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“Only then (nearly out the door, so to speak) did I realize how unspeakably beautiful all of this was, how precisely engineered for our pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime thing.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden," Jacques said. And then: "I wonder why.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
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