Human nature Quote by A.S. Byatt

“...bleached by darkness”

— A.S. Byatt

“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper…

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“Why do you go cold?" He kept his voice gentle. "I - I've analysed it. Because I have the sort of good looks I…

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“She was a thinking child, and worked this out. It hurt her, unlike most knowledge, which was strength and pleasure.”

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“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history),…

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“All these are true and none. The place is there Is what we name it, and is not. It is .”

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“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought…

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“ We must come to grief and regret anyway - and I for one would rather regret the reality than its phantasm, knowledge than…

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“Roland had learned to see himself, theoretically, as a crossing-place for a number of systems, all loosely connected. He had been trained to see…

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“She thought human thoughts and stone thoughts. The latter were slow, patchily coloured, textured and extreme, both hot and cold. They did not translate…

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“…it will be possible, in the time of the wolf, to kill the gods.”

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“She looked, quickly, quickly, it was better than before, thanked him and averted her eyes. She came to trust him with her disintegration.”

— A.S. Byatt