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“Anyway, these ideas or feelings or ramblings had their satisfactions. They turned the pain of others into memories of ones own. They turned pain, which is natural, enduring, and eternally triumphan...”
“He had a little single-story house, three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom, a combined kitchen-living room-dining room with windows that faced west, a small brick porch where there was...”
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes, but as the result of an exercise of concealment. There must be many boo...”
“I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a week."Don't you? Don't you really?" he asked himself."Really I don't," he said to h...”
“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.”
“If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discu...”
“Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?”
“Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell ...”
“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”
“Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.”
“And finally the two of them plunged into the dark sea, a sea like a pack of wolves, and they dove around the boat trying to find young Reiter's body, with no success, until they had to come up for ...”
“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.”
“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.”
“No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.”
“The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what sooner or later the would have to say. The first twenty ...”
