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“...(he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our…

— Primo Levi

“he could feel the earth beneath, all the deep stone of it, cool and hard near the surface of the earth, but hotter and…

— Orson Scott Card

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“The formless aching hunger that suffused his being wasn't there like it used to be. There was something sharper in it, like the great…

— S.P. Wayne

“In spite of everything, he still felt wonderful, like I was embracing a mountain. But I now knew that as solid as he seemed,…

— Brent Hartinger

“He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“As he took possession of it, he was overcome by a sense of something like sacred awe. He carefully spread his horse blanket on…

— Patrick Süskind

“... he felt unusually warm toward humankind. He even thought that it could warm to him. Everyone, all of us, individually facing oblivion as…

— Ian McEwan

“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

“He was up to his neck in it. He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story's essence had…

— Haruki Murakami

“And the thought came to him, that he was like that metal, about to be plunged into a fire hotter and more savage than…

— Ruth Warburton

“Then the true essence of the place came to him,”

— Phil Rickman