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“Sometimes with all the teasing his days were subtenable.”

— George Saunders

“his avowal of follies and excess seemed uttered rather in the spirit of wounded pride, than in that of contrition.”

— Walter Scott

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now he saw…

— William Somerset Maugham

“He wanted to hear his own footsteps to prove that he trod the ground.”

— Colum McCann

“I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water.”

— Dan Simmons

“Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“Then this travesty of manhood reascended to his feet, and said, whether speaking to me or to himself I could not tell,”

— Richard Marsh

“He welcomed those limitations, for if he were perfect, what would be left for him to accomplish?”

— Christopher Paolini

“He was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the desires of those around him.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“There were times when [he] allowed himself to see clearly that he would end his working life, that was to say, his conscious thinking…

— A.S. Byatt

“…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care.…

— Jesse Ball

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois