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From The Little Prince
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“‘Good-bye,’ said the fox. ‘Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.’”

From The Odyssey
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“So he spoke, and Kalypso, shining among divinities, smiled and stroked him with her hand and spoke to him and named him: ‘You are so naughty . . . ’”

From White Noise
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“At Fourth and Elm, cars turn left for the supermarket. A policewoman crouched inside a boxlike vehicle patrols the area looking for cars parked illegally . . .”


From “The Third and Final Continent”
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“Whenever we make that drive, I always take Massachusetts Avenue, in spite of the traffic. I barely recognize the buildings now, but each time I am there I return instantly to those six weeks as if they were only the other day . . .”

From “Sea Oak”
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“‘Come here,’ the head says to me, and I squat down. ‘That’s it for me. I’m fucked. As per usual. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Although come to think of it I was never even the freaking bridesmaid.”

From The Great Gatsby
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“And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.”

From The Bell Jar
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“Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus.”

From A Study in Scarlet
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“In the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilization.”

From Soldiers of Salamis
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“‘Well, that's a shame,’ said Bolaño, ‘a man of action is a frustrated writer. If Don Quixote had written one single book of chivalry he never would have been Don Quixote . . .”

From Jacob Have I Loved
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“‘Jacob have I loved . . .’ Suddenly my stomach flipped. Who was speaking? I couldn’t remember the passage. Was it Isaac, the gather of the twins?”

From Utopia
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“‘What about it?’” I asked—for I never hesitated to speak freely in front of the Cardinal. ‘This method of dealing with thieves is both unjust and socially undesirable.’”

From Waiting for the Barbarians
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“The stars twinkle out of a clear black sky. Through the bars of the yard gate comes the gleam of a fire on the square beyond."

From “The Murderer”
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“Three phones rang. A duplicate wrist radio in his desk drawer buzzed like a wounded grasshopper. The intercom flashed a pink light and click-clicked. Three phones rang.”

From “Number Three, Garden Road”
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“Meilan studied the old man shrinking into the depth of the armchair, his eyes looking past her and dwelling on some distant past she had no place in. How many times in his life had he let himself truly see her?”

From The Year of Magical Thinking
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“Several years ago, walking east on Fifty-seventh Street between Sixth and Fifth Avenues on a bright fall day, I had what I believed at the time to be an apprehension of death.”

From Swann’s Way
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“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say ‘I’m going to sleep.’”

From Ceremony
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“From the jungles of his dreaming he recognized why the Japanese voices had merged with Laguna voices, with Josiah’s and Rocky’s voice . . .”

From “The Dolt”
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“Edgar tried to think of a way to badmouth this immense son leaning over him like a large blaring building. But he couldn't think of anything. Thinking of anything was beyond him.”

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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“‘You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave wherever I have to leave.’”