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e998a89
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She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.
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surface
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Khaled Hosseini |
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"This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man was capable of change or that the world could be a better place through one's taking pleasure in a feeling or a look or a gesture, of receiving another person's love or kindness. Nothing was affirmative, the term "generosity of spirit" applied to nothing, was a cliche, was some kind of bad joke. Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire--meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Fear, recrimination, innocence, sympathy, guilt, waste, failure, grief, were things, emotions, that no one really felt anymore. Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in ... this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged ..."
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inhuman
disbelief
satire
surface
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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Am auzit sau am citit ca filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafata un invelis de cuart, din care e greu sa extragi metalul. Presupun ca si inima ta are un asemenea invelis; inauntru se afla metalul pretios, dar afurisita asta de coaja nu s-a topit de tot...
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heart
inspirational
surface
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Henryk Sienkiewicz |
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The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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meaning
life
razor-s-edge
ripple
river
lake
stone
surface
water
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness. The black and the black and the black.
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happy
good
dark
people
goodness
darkness
happiness
fused
grab
grabbing
scratch
spider
lights
beyond
web
distraction
see
black
surface
distracted
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John Fowles |
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People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above.
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people
globe
infinities
space
surface
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Michel Faber |