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Avarice, like love, has the gift of second sight, instinctively guessing at future contingencies, and hugging its presentiments.
“Sometimes he would stare at a hand-sized place on her body, the notch above her hip, the curve of her calf, the groove at the back of her neck, and he worried about the loyalty of his hands, daydreamed about their betrayal.”
― Over Tumbled Graves: A Novel
― Over Tumbled Graves: A Novel
“he had that well-heeled vibe that a lot of the people up here wore on their sleeves, earned the old-fashioned way—through an industrious ancestor.”
― Under Pressure
― Under Pressure
“here I cannot but take notice that the strange temper of the people of London at that time contributed extremely to their own destruction.”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“The face of London was now indeed strangely altered:”
― A Journal of the Plague Year
― A Journal of the Plague Year
“While we are threading our way through the vagaries of life, our shortage of reciprocity and solidarity may corner us into breaches of culpability. We can eschew this and kindle a dream of universalism that does not impose itself but emerges from the world's numerous cultural and topical particularities and enable us to compare, discern, and identify, allowing us to marvel at the diversity. In this way, we can embrace universal recognition, human understanding, peace of mind, and compassion with others and with ourselves. ("I only needed a light ")”
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