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He was one of those people who, quick to laugh, are slow to anger; so that their anger, when it comes, is all the more impressive, seeming to leap from some unsuspected crevice like a fire which will bring the whole house down.
“Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude”
― The Invention of Solitude
― The Invention of Solitude
“No, you're mistaken. Not 'What filthy weather' but 'It's a fine rainy day.”
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“He was fond of saying that, since to be in prison was simply not to live, the death penalty was the only merciful verdict any jury could deliver.”
― Giovanni's Room
― Giovanni's Room
“Then I took her in my arms and something happened then. I was terribly glad to see her. It really seemed, with Hella in the circle of my arms, that my arms were home and I was welcoming her back there. She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.”
― Giovanni's Room
― Giovanni's Room
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