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“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“[Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation.”
― House of Meetings
― House of Meetings
“I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able - or even have the courage - to achieve.”
― Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
― Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
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