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- The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not…
- How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three…
- The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again,…
- Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
- A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you…
- Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To…
- When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have…
- Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear…
- Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you.…
- If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick…
- You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every…
- To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and…
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