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The floating pollen seemed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of the garden the weeping of the garden's sensibility.

He had, he verily believed, overcome all tendency to fly to liquor - which, indeed, he had never done from taste, but merely as an escape from intolerable misery of the mind.

Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.

A novel which does moral injury to a dozen imbeciles, and has bracing results upon a thousand intellects of normal vigor, can justify its existence; and probably a novel was never written by the purest-minded author for which there could not be found some moral invalid or other whom it was capable of harming. The Profitable Reading of Fiction 1888

far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees...

O, if any man wants to make himself immortal by painting a picture of wretchedness, let him come here!

Swithin had, in fact, arisen as an attractive little intervention between herself and despair.

In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of "Far from the Madding Crowd" as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt the word "Wessex" from the pages of early English history, and give it a fictitious significance as the existing name of the district once included in that extinct kingdom.

He spoke in squarely shaped sentences, and was supremely satisfied with a condition of sublunary things which made weapons a necessity.

Tess Durbeyfield at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinctured by experience.

Angel began to comfort and reassure her, thinking to himself, truly enough, what a creature of moods she was, and how careful he would have to be of her when she depended for her happiness entirely on him.

Mi sia concesso ripetere che un romanzo è un'impressione, non un'argomentazione.

been awakened to woman's privileges in tergiversation

I don't possess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

The mistake of expressing them had arisen from his allowing himself to be influenced by general principles to the disregard of the particular instance.

in his view there could come of his interference nothing worse than what existed at present. And yet to every bad there is a worse.

the voice was unexpectedly attractive...common in descriptions, rare in experince.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

the washing machine's rhythm was like a giant heartbeat, and the rush of its waters was what the unborn hear- our last memory of peace.

Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers.

The enemy inside Graham agreed with any accusation.

The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.