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“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.”

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Julian Barnes, born on January 19, 1946, is a distinguished British writer. His works span across various genres including novels, essays, and criticism, known for their unique literary style and profound insights into human nature. more

“listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room? not here, not there: you hear them in another time that is now, listen to the footsteps of time, inventor of places with no weight, nowhere, listen to the rain running over the terrace, the night is now more night in the grove, lightning has nestled among the leaves, a restless garden adrift-go in, your shadow covers this page.”

Years Moments Running Night Next Rooms Return Pages Shadow Rain Garden Weight Lightning Restless Inventor Footsteps Listen To Me Grove Another Time Adrift Terrace

Author:Octavio Paz

“The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.”

Ifs Pain Train Invites

Book:The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel

Source: The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel

“I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.”

Heart Said Soul Body Light My Heart Beats Breaths My Soul

Author:Nora Roberts

“Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.”

Self Moments Desire Certain Realizing Issues Alive Love You Flesh Boundaries Inevitable Glances Absent Intervals Eros I Love You Too Between You And Me Aftershock

Book:Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

“To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself.”

Men Suffering Loses Responsibility Stupid Fool Losing Bases Endure Genuine Tragic Deceiving Unnecessary

Book:Under the Volcano: A Novel

Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel

“Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours." "Thank you." "Sank you." "Not sank you, Señora Gregorio, thank you." "Sank you.”

Needs House Shadow

Book:Under the Volcano: A Novel

Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel

“Benvolio- "By my head, here come the Capulets." Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.”

Care Heels I Care Juliet Romeo And Juliet Play Romeo Juliet Romeo And Juliet Juliet Romeo And Juliet Romeo Tybalt

Book:The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Source: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

“He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.”

Should States Wife Dumb Perpetual

Author:Sarah MacLean

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