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The house of a childhood lying half a century in the past is a mostly airy structure. It consists more of views in and out of it than of solid walls: of partial views of corners, nooks and crannies, certain pieces of furniture, foregrounds and backgrounds — in short, something fragmentary, like the disparate sets in a film studio for a movie shot from the perspective of a knee-high nipper.
— Nov 11, 2013 02:37AM
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Ema
is on page 215 of 304
At thirteen she knew as well as I with my nine years that to preserve something valuable, one has to know how to renounce it in good time.
— Nov 11, 2013 02:33AM
Ema
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At that time, city noises had not yet fused into a single continuous and deafening shriek of machines and roar of engines. Urban noise still had a kind of human dimension, composed of voices and natural sounds.
— Nov 08, 2013 01:47AM
Ema
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We belonged to two different civilizations. She had been born before the general proletarization of the postwar era, in a world that still believed itself to be whole, while I was the true son of an era of universal disintegration.
— Nov 05, 2013 01:48AM
Ema
is on page 42 of 304
I would have kept my innocence much longer had I not been suspected so early of having lost it.
— Nov 05, 2013 01:46AM
Ema
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As my father used to say, primitive people have no grasp of the abstract concept of beauty in nature, since for them, sensory perception of nature flows together with love of the ancestral soil; anything else is merely alien.
— Nov 05, 2013 01:44AM
