The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune … - Lauren Willig

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The self. . . can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to share fully in its reality. . . you are that superself looking out through only one eye, or using just one finger.

Lauren Willig

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

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Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Book, Fascination, Owned, Reading, Smell, Strange

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven.

Morning, Book, Writing, Composed, Alarm, Invariably

There is, I have heard, a little thing called sunrise, in which the sun reverses the process we all viewed the night before. You might assume such a thing as mythical as those beasts that guard the corners of the earth, but I have it on the finest authority, and have, indeed, from time to time, regarded it with my own eyes.

Eye, Night, Sunrise, Mythical, Viewed

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Waiting, Virtue, Worth Waiting For, Patience, Worth

Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.

Morning, Brother, Believe, Across, Supposedly