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  1. Richard Flanagan _ The Narrow Road to the Deep

    As the cards fluttered to earth, as everyone's hand was revealed as worthless, as every point won was shown to be a pointless charade, she would tell them how wonderful this other man was, and how if she didn't see him for another thirty years she would still love him, how she would still love him if he was dead until she was dead too. But instead she watched as Harry Robertson played the right bower, and he and Keith, who always played as partners, won the hand.
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  2. Richard Flanagan _ The Narrow Road to the Deep

    the heat, the emotion so raw and exposed it was like butchered flesh; the tormented, hopeless feeling of two people who lived together in a love not yet love, nor yet not; an unshared life shared; a conspiracy of affections, illnesses, tragedies, jokes and labour; a marriage-the strange, terrible neverendingness of human beings. A family.
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  3. Richard Flanagan _ The Sound Of One Hand Clapping

    Because not to fear was to imagine a world beyond experience. And that was too much for anybody.
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  4. Richard Flanagan _ Notes on an Exodus

    One small boy jumps over a table, pulls his jumper and shirt up, and turns his back to us to show where shrapnel wounded him when he was three. His classmates shriek with laughter.
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  5. Richard Flanagan _ The Narrow Road to the Deep

    So they saw, but they did not see; so they heard, but they did not hear; and they knew, they knew it all, but still they tried not to know.
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  6. Richard Flanagan _ The Narrow Road to the Deep

    ვინ იტყვის, რა არის ზედ ასახული? ერთმა შეიძლება ისინი აღიქვას მონობის მტკიცებად, მეორემ - პროპაგანდად. განა იეროგლიფები გვეუბნებიან რამეს იმის შესახებ, თუ როგორი იყო მონის ცხოვრება შოლტის ქვეშ პირამიდების მშენებლობაზე? განა ჩვენ ამაზე ვსაუბრობთ? ვმსჯელობთ? არა. ჩვენ ეგვიპტური კულტურის მშვენიერებასა და სიდიადეზე ვლაპარაკობთ. ან რომაელთა კულტურაზე, ან სანკტ-პეტერბურგის კულტურაზე - და არც ერთ სიტყვას არ ვიტყვით ასიათასობით მონის ძვლებზე, რომლებზეც ისინია აშენებული. შეიძლება იაპონელებიც ასე დაიმახსოვრონ. შეიძლება ამ ნახატებთან მიმართებითაც ისე მოხდეს, რომ მათი საშუალებით ამ მონსტრების დიდებულება გაამართლონ.
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  7. Richard Flanagan _ First Person

    we wish we had never known.
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  8. Richard Flanagan _ The Narrow Road to the Deep

    Philopon helps me through this fever, Nakamura said, feeling
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  9. Richard Flanagan _ The Narrow Road to the Deep

    There was, he knew, within him, hidden deep and far away, a great slumbering turbulence he could neither understand nor reach, a turbulence that was also a void, the business of unfinished things.
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  10. Richard Flanagan _ Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel

    Perhaps if Tasmania had been a normal place where you had a proper job, spent hours in traffic in order to spend more hours in a normal crush of anxieties waiting to return to a normal confinement, and where no-one ever dreamt what it was like to be a seahorse, abnormal things like becoming a fish wouldn't happen to you.
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  11. Richard Flanagan _ The Narrow Road to the Deep

    Fuck God, he had actually wanted to say. Fuck God for having made this world, fucked be His name, now and for fucking ever, fuck God for our lives, fuck God for not saving us, fuck God for not fucking being here and for not fucking saving the men burning on the fucking bamboo.
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  12. Richard Flanagan _ The Narrow Road to the Deep

    One man's feeling is not always equal to all that life is. Sometimes it's not equal to anything much at all."
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