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What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions—the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted, he said, to wrestle with those. But he’d become impatient with the way people wasted their lives,
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“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. —FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“They came here, desperate, lured by the promise of finally winning something, set up to be devoured so people who already had everything would continue having exactly what they already had, what they could have had anyway, what they felt was their due.”
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― Hide
“Hob is used to this and waited with the stoic air of a martyr undergoing torture.”
― What Moves the Dead
― What Moves the Dead
“I feel exhausted, a feeling of catching up, a feeling of something finding me. My heart is a thin thing, these days—shred of paper blown between the spaces in my ribs.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
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