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"Books VII + VIII: Raphael recounts the creation story to Adam, with God shaping the universe using the golden compasses (later referenced by Pullman). Noticing the paired animals, Adam desires companionship, and so God creates Eve from his rib. The exploration of the bounds of man's obedience and knowledge foreshadows the fall." 5 hours, 48 min ago

 
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Cristina Campo
“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”
Cristina Campo, The Unforgivable and Other Writings

Virginia Woolf
“Volubly, troublously, the late clock sounded, coming in on the wake of Big Ben, with its lap full of trifles. Beaten up, broken up by the assault of carriages, the brutality of vans, the eager advance of myriads of angular men, of flaunting women, the domes and spires of offices and hospitals, the last relics of this lap full of odds and ends seemed to break, like the spray of an exhausted wave, upon the body of Miss Kilman standing still in the street for a moment to mutter "It is the flesh.”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Cormac McCarthy
“But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

Ann Quin
“If I could trace a single line below the surface of my assumptions, would there come a point when clarity supersedes the chaos of what has been? The tragic sense of destiny is inherent in every man; but I defy fate, I alone am responsible for every action, every scene; in my nothingness I will create the idea, I shall see what I have imagined, and from that alone will spring my entire actions.”
Ann Quin, Berg

Graham Greene
“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.”
Graham Greene, The Quiet American
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