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  1. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall experience, except as a final full stop. The items of flotsam that I choose to salvage from the general wreckage-and what is a life but a gradual shipwreck?-may take on an aspect of inevitability when I put them on display in their glass showcases, but they are random; representative, perhaps, perhaps compellingly so, but random nonetheless.
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  2. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.
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  3. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    … убеждението, което ние всички храним на тази възраст, че семействата на нашите приятели са много симпатични, по-приятни и интересни – с една дума, по-желани, – отколкото нашите собствени?
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  4. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    of her blood. Oh, I do not say these are
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  5. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We do not need to go to the Greeks, our tragic predicament is written out on rolls of lavatory paper.
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  6. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    Whom now would I love, and who would love me?
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  7. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling -- this is a further effect of our shared sorrow, this empathy, this mournful telepathy.
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  8. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.
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  9. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    Remember what April was like when we were young, that sense of liquid rushing and the wind taking blue scoops out of the air and the birds beside themselves in the budding trees?
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  10. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    Yes, another April; in a way, in this story, it is always April.
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  11. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    These things that were between us, these and a myriad others, a myriad myriad, these remain of her, but what will become of them when I am gone, I who am their repository and sole preserver?
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  12. John Banville _ Ancient Light

    I guard my memories of my lost one jealously, keep them securely under wraps, like a folio of delicate watercolours that must be protected from the harsh light of day.
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