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“How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?”

“But now she stood under a tall violet sky on the surface of a petrified black ocean, all new, all strange; it was absolutely impossible to compare it to anything she had seen before; and all of a sudden, the past sheered away in her head and she turned in circles like a little girl trying to make herself dizzy, without a thought in her head.”