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All the next day the pleasure of his success lingers in Werner's blood, the memory of how it seemed almost holy to him to walk beside big Volkheimer back to the castle, down through the frozen trees, past the rooms of sleeping boys ranked like gold bars in strongrooms...
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She can hear the bombers when they are three miles away. A mounting static. The hum inside a seashell.
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What does he remember? He saw the engineer Bernd close the cellar door and sit on the stairs.
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What the war did to dreamers
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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,"
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ANTHONY DOERR is the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won numerous prizes both in the United States and overseas, including four O. Henry Prizes, three Pushcart Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Raised in Cl..
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Ce n'est pas la realite.
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Every cell in a dying body winks out at its own pace.
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everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point.
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Wednesdays. You will strip away
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A memory rises: Etienne was in a field east of the city with his brother. It was the summer when fireflies showed up in Saint-Malo, and their father was very excited, building long-handled nets for the boys and giving them jars with wire to fasten over the tops, and Etienne and Henri raced through the tall grass as the fireflies floated away from them, illuming on and off, always seeming to rise just beyond their reach, as if the earth were..
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The big trunk of the umbrella pine looms outside the window, living its two lives--the upper world of needles and stems, the lower world of roots and soil.
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Herr Siedler smiles as if to say: You and I, son, we know history takes a longer course, don't we?
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A little brown house sparrow swoops out of the rafters and lands on the tiles in front of her. Marie-Laure holds out an open palm. The sparrow tilts his head, considering. Then it flaps away. One month later she is blind.
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Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor. The stubborn. The blind.
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Each minute that passes is one fewer in this house. In this life.
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Out there people chase questions of great importance.
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Use logic. Which way should we go first?" The world pivots and rumbles."
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Violins, horns, drums, speeches--a mouth against a microphone in some faraway yet simultaneous evening--the sorcery of it holds him rapt.
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The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.
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We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother's birth canal and we howl. Then ..
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O tempo e algo escorregadio: segure com firmeza, ou seu encadeamento pode escoar de suas maos para sempre.
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Winkler's breath plumed up onto his glasses. The entire valley was enveloped in a huge, illuminated stillness. Above him the clouds had pulled away and the sky burned with stars. The meadow smoldered with light, and the spruce had become illuminated kingdoms, snow sifting from branch to branch. He thought: This has been here every winter all my life.
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as if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be.
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Ele a fez o brilhante centro da vida dele; ele a fez sentir como se cada passo que ela dava fosse importante.
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Radio: it ties a million ears to a single mouth. Out
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Algumas vezes, eu me apanho encarando o mar e me esqueco de minhas tarefas. Parace grande o suficiente para conter qualquer coisa que as pessoas possam sentir.
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To be in love was to be dazed twenty times a morning: by the latticework of frost on his windshield; by a feather loosed from his pillow; by a soft, pink rim of light over the hills. He slept three or four hours a night. Some days he felt as if he were about to peel back the surface of the Earth--the trees standing frozen on the hills, the churning face of the inlet--and finally witness what lay beneath, the structure under there, the funda..
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Quantos labirintos existem neste mundo. Os galhos das arvores, as filigranas das raizes, a matriz dos cristais, as ruas que o pai dela tinha recriado nas maquetes. Labirintos nas saliencias de conchas de murex, nas texturas da casca de platanos e dentro dos ossos ocos das aguias. Nada mais complicado do que o cerebro humano, diria Etienne, a coisa mais complexa que existe; um orgao, dentro do qual giram universos.
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Abram os olhos e vejam o maximo que puderem antes que eles se fechem para sempre.
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Entao, criancas, como o cerebro, que vive sem uma centelha de luz, constroi para nos um mundo cheio de luz?
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Todos passamos a existir a partir de uma unica celula, menor do que um grao de areia. Muito menor. Dividir. Multiplicar. Somar e subtrair. A materia muda de sentido, os atomos flutuam para dentro e para fora, as moleculas giram, as proteinas se grudam umas nas outras, as mitocondrias transmitem ordens oxidantes; comecamos como uma aglomeracao eletrica microscopica. Os pulmoes, o cerebro, o coracao. Quarenta semanas mais tarde, seis trilhoes..
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It says, Over these three years, our leader has had the courage to face a Europe that was in danger of collapse . . . It says, He alone is to be thanked for the fact that, for German children, a German life has once again become worth living.
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A real diamond, his father used to say, is never entirely free of inclusions. A real diamond is never perfect.
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A ciencia, meu rapaz, e construida com erros, mas sao erros uteis, porque levam, pouco a pouco, ate a verdade.
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In another half second her father's hands are in her armpits, swinging her up, and Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the sidewalk in front of their apartment house, laughing together while snow sifts through the branches above.
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In stormy light, its granite glows blue. At the highest tides, the sea creeps into basements at the very center of town. At the lowest tides, the barnacled ribs of a thousand shipwrecks stick out above the sea.
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Siga a logica. Todo efeito tem sua causa, e todo problema tem sua solucao. Toda fechadura tem sua chave. Voce pode voltar para Paris ou permancer aqui ou seguir em frente.
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He found himself thinking of water, how it is never still, how even in our bodies water never relents: ceaselessly vibrating, each electron in each molecule in each cell orbiting, spinning, nine independent vectors of position and force, a rapture of movement.
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Hope was a sunrise, a friend in an alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.
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Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even.
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