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“Theophilus Hopkins was a moderately famous man. You can look him up in the 1860 Britannica. There are three full columns about his corals and his corallines, his anemones and starfish. It does not have anything very useful about the man. It does not tell you what he was like. You can read it three times over and never guess that he had any particular attitude to Christmas pudding.”
― Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

“We are alive on the very brink of eternity.”
― Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

“Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education