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Marina is on page 80 of 152 of Siddhartha
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Marina is on page 100 of 559 of The Secret History
Julian, at the head of the long table, rises to his feet and lifts his wineglass, ‘Live forever’, he says.
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Marina is on page 93 of 559 of The Secret History
None of them were the least bit interested in anything that went on in the world, and their ignorance of current events and even recent history was rather astounding.
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Marina is on page 45 of 559 of The Secret History
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
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Marina
Marina is on page 45 of 559 of The Secret History
‘One is capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of the night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal!

(Last scene of Hannibal and Will killing the Dragon)
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Marina is on page 44 of 559 of The Secret History
‘And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?’
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Marina
Marina is on page 44 of 559 of The Secret History
‘The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw,’ he said, ‘was an obsession with order.
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Marina
Marina is on page 43 of 559 of The Secret History
‘Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational.
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Marina
Marina is on page 43 of 559 of The Secret History
‘We don’t like to admit it ,’ said Julian, ‘but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.

(Will Graham)
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Marina is on page 41 of 559 of The Secret History
‘Death is the mother of beauty,’ said Henry.
‘And what is beauty?’
‘Terror.’
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Marina is on page 41 of 559 of The Secret History
‘Aristotles says in the Poetics,’ said Henry, ‘that objects such as corpses, painful to view in themselves, can become delightful to contemplate in a work of art’

(when i read this i thought about hannibal’s art with the people he kills)
Jul 26, 2022 09:27AM Add a comment
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Marina is on page 39 of 559 of The Secret History
‘And how did they drive people mad? They turned up the volume of the inner monologue, magnified qualities already present to great excess, made people so much themselves that they couldn’t stand it.

And how can we lose this maddening self, lose it entirely?
Jul 26, 2022 09:24AM Add a comment
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