What it would be like to spend ten years in this tall narrow house, shuttered from the world, studying its secrets and reading its volumes and looking at this girl.
What light shines at night! He never knew. Light will blind him.
When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?
You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self- interest. Of cour...
Your problem, Werner, says Frederick, is that you still believe you own your life.
Bathroom,
Byzantine complication: Mondays are for mechanics,
Does not want to decide. They visit Scotland, New York City, Santiago. More than once they put on winter coats and visit the moon. Can’t you feel how lightweight we are, Marie? You can move by hardly...
Forever, but so long as he kept it, misfortunes would fall on all those he loved one after another in unending rain. Live forever? But if the keeper threw the diamond into the sea, thereby delivering...
Have been friends. A reality more pleasant than
He wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are—if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.
Himmelblau,
Men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting f...
N’est pas la r
Only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Reading again: Who could possibly calculate the minimum time required for us to get out? Might we not be asphyxiated before the Nautilus could surface? Was it destined to perish in this tomb of ice al...
Realizes, is the basis of his fear, all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark. Who built all of this,
Smoldering skeletons of the seafront
Straining insects above a roadside ditch.
This window here, a boy once yelled, Watch
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