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“The flowers which played then among the grass, the water which rippled past in the sunshine, the whole landscape which served as environment to their apparition lingers around the memory of them st...”
“I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I dont know why theyd decided to confine its purpose just to sitting. Obviously, s...”
“The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.”
“Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.”
“... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart.”
“The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.”
“Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.”
“They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at once wet and crisp, the trees dripping jewels, the flowers drunk on drinkin...”
“There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way.”
“... the kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive...”
“She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.”
“He went farther; agonised by the reflection, at the moment when it passed by him, so near and yet so infinitely remote, that, while it was addressed to their ears, it knew them not, he would regret...”
“The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA.”
“To the left, just past the painting, on the other side of the hall, is the bathroom, the sort of open door that if cameras found it as they passed through the house in a horror movie would trigger ...”
“Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. Its a look that no human eyes should ever have.”
“I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay.”
“Something moved on the grounds down beneath my window cast a long spider of shadow out across the grass as it ran out of sight behind a hedge. When it ran back to where I could get a better look, ...”
“A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be...”
“Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame merely a reason for treating him with a friendly b...”
“Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.”
