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“Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.”
― The Simple Art of Murder
― The Simple Art of Murder
“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
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“What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father recreated in his models... None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone.”
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