Post quotes or passages from books that you find interesting. I'll start.

>His face wore that perpetual look of peevish dejection, which is so sourly printed on all faces of Jewish race without exception.

F. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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>"I will speak for you Father, I will speak for all the mediocrities in the world, I am their champion, I am their patron saint."

Amadeus, probably from the original play.

>We do not know what strength or what possibilities lie hidden in any living creature. Nor do we imagine all that we can do. We live and we die, but we do not know all that we could have become or could have done. Such insight is revealed to us only during momentous and exceptional events such as this one in which Aska danced her movements having already lost the life she had.

Aska snd Wolf, a short story by Ivo Andric.

Young Adam

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out of oppositions comes energy. Out of contrast arises beauty. (Canterbury)

It

is necessary only to act 'as if one's conventional categories

were arbitrary for one to come gradually to know that they

are, that the profoundest experiences are in the ordinary

situation locked out from one's arena of experience by the

inflexible barrier of good character.



There is a point at which a man and a woman stalk one

another like animals. It is normally in most human situations a very civilised kind of stalking, each move on either side

being capable of more than one interpretation. This is a defensive measure. One can, as it were, pretend up to the last

moment not to be aware of the sexual construction that can

be placed upon one's own movements; one is not bound to

admit one's intention to seduce before one is certain that the

seduction is consented to. But one can never be quite certain

because the other is just as wary, just as unwilling to consent

to a man who has not shown clearly his intentions are sexual

as the man is to make his intentions obvious without prior

consent. So a man and a woman fence with one another

and the fencing is the more delicate because neither can

wholly trust the other not to simulate ignorance of all that

has passed between them. In every situation the man might

be a puritan, the woman might wish to have the pleasure of

being courted without the finality of the sexual act itself.

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>even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he'd guessed out likewise for the living a nominal grief like a grange from which disaster and ruin are proportioned by laws of equity too subtle for divining.



Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
