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On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.

Songs from Vagabondia

... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

Swann's Way

... it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.

Swann's Way

In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss;...

Swann's Way

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.

Swann's Way

Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow.

Swann's Way

And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.

Swann's Way

... "Why did you not forget your heart also? I should never have let you have that back." ...

Swann's Way

The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.

Swann's Way

... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.

Swann's Way

I would feel the satisfaction of being shut in from the outer world...

Swann's Way

After luncheon the sun, conscious that it was Saturday, would blaze an hour longer in the zenith,...

Swann's Way

No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Por menos valor que tenha a vida quando é desperdiçada, vale, contudo, a pena defendê-la. Se assim não fosse, não custaria abandoná-la.

A Tale of Two Cities

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Dio promette la vita eterna” disse Eldritch. “Io posso fare di meglio; posso metterla in commercio.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.

Thirst

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

The Poisonwood Bible

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

The Poisonwood Bible

Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

The Poisonwood Bible