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“You shall create beauty not to excite the sensesbut to give sustenance to the soul. ”
“I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.”
“Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers' hours...”
“It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes its hard to tell.”
“How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?”
“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”
“Slogans are mere wordsuck...”
“Ignorance and virtue suck on the same straw...”
“[Stieg] was describing Sweden the way it was and the way he saw the country: the scandals, the oppression of women, the friends he cherished and wished to honor.”
“Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes; but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow. There was...”
“My parents seemed incredibly special and outrageously handsome to me then.”
“Horses frighten me as much as chickens do, he said.That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress, said Abrenuncio. If we ever broke down the barriers, we cou...”
“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”
“It is easier to start a war than to end it.”
“There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.”
“He always believed he loved his daughter, but the fear of rabies obliged the Marquis to admit to himself that this was a lie for the sake of convenience. Bernarda, on the other hand, did not even a...”
“Depression isn't a condition, it's a state of mind.”
“And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.”
“Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.”
“Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father in law gave him some schematic lessons. The Liberals, he said, were Freema...”
