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“He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.”

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John Irving is an American novelist known for his intricate narrative structures and profound character development. His works often explore themes of family, love, morality, and identity, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.”

Ifs Hands Found Poor Conditions Divine Capable Evidence Salvation Shoulders Saving Mortals Gestures Smallest Uncertain Propositions Inclination

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening climacteric of thoughts and emotions.”

“I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.”

People Art Wish Mystery Prove Works Of Art Surround Realism Naturalism

Author:Joris-Karl Huysmans

“How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.”

Men Humans Made Nature Wonderful Machines Inferiors Replaced Wonderful Things

Book:The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans

Source: The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans

“A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have known as many men as there are beads on her aunt's rosary. No happy medium! Either a nun or a monster! God's bosom or sensual passions! It would, perhaps, be better to put her in a convent, since we put hysterical women in the Saltpetriere! She does not know vice, she invents it!" That was ten years ago before the day our story begins and... Raoule was not a nun.”

Thinking Knows Men Years Doe Stories Passion Known Cases Too Much Special Ten Creatures Years Ago Vices Monsters Mediums Sensual Aunt Bosoms Nun Hysterical Beads Rosary

Author:Rachilde

“No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.”

Heart Has Beens I Can Break Sacrifice Share Becoming Instruments Lust Vulnerable Disgusting Echoes Vibrations

Author:Rachilde

“It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library, to know, to study. But I have had no passion, I have not written my own book yet! I always found myself alone when we were two. One is not weak when one remains master of one's self in the midst of the most stupefying pleasures.”

Knows Two Book Self Passion Found My Own Pleasure Study Written Masters Lovers Weak Remains Library Lust Shoulders Midst

Author:Rachilde

“Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?" Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there.”

People World Mean Three Walks Balls Exciting Rounds Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Upside Down Round World

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!”

Long Has Beens Problem Simple Behinds Available Mice Garbage Could Have Been Dropping Behind You Tissues Dumped Vaults Rodents Pole Vault

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!”

Clear Magic Terrible Mere Subtle Vivid

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

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