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"Books V and VI. The war in heaven, Iliad-esque. Jesus flexes on the divine chariot. Satan and pals choose the abyss over the wrath of God" — Mar 06, 2026 04:50PM
"Books V and VI. The war in heaven, Iliad-esque. Jesus flexes on the divine chariot. Satan and pals choose the abyss over the wrath of God" — Mar 06, 2026 04:50PM
“Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.”
― The Quiet American
― The Quiet American
“But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
“Sprezzatura is a moral rhythm, it is the music of an interior grace; it is the tempo, I would like to say, in which the perfect freedom of any given destiny is made manifest”
― The Unforgivable and Other Writings
― The Unforgivable and Other Writings
“I lay full length on the sand, took up a handful and let it run through my fingers in soft yellow streams. I told myself that it ran out like time. It was an idle thought, and it was pleasant to have idle thoughts, for it was summer.”
― Bonjour tristesse
― Bonjour tristesse
“I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”
― The Peregrine
― The Peregrine
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