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Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and…

— Roberto Bolano

And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself…

— Paulo Coelho

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as…

— Alessandro Baricco

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with…

— Flannery O'Connor

I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the…

— Clive James

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

— Zora Neale Hurston

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the…

— George Orwell

The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a…

— Lucio Russo

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man…

— Edith Wharton

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over…

— Anthony Marra