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  1. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    ...Denise left the kitchen and took the plate to Alfred, for whom the problem of existence was this: that, in the manner of a wheat seedling thrusting itself up out of the earth, the world moved forward in a time by adding cell after cell to its leading edge, piling moment on moment, and that to grasp the world even in its freshest youngest moment provided no guarantee that you'd be able to grasp it again a moment later. By the time he'd established his daughter Denise was handing him a plate of snacks in his son Chip's living room, the next moment in time was already budding itself into a pristinely ungrasped existence in which he couldn't absolutely rule out the possibility, for example, that his wife Enid was handing him a plate of feces in the parlor of a brothel.
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  2. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    Her life would have been easier if she hadn't loved him so much, but she couldn't help loving him. Just to look at him was to love him.
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  3. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    ليس من الممكن في ظروف مالية منتعشة كهذه أن يفشل إلا أحمق أو نصاب."
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  4. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    My apartment rightfully belongs to the people of Lithuania!
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  5. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so
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  6. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    The shame and disorder in his house were like the shame and disorder in his head.
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  7. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    The house felt more like a body-softer, more mortal and organic-than like a building
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  8. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    That his comments actually pertained to her questions-that in spite of the infinity in his eyes he was participating in a finite conversation-made up for the sourness in his face.
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  9. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    Impossibility is attractive.
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  10. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    There came a time, however, when death ceased to be the enforcer of finitude and began to look, instead, like the last opportunity for radical transformation, the only plausible portal to the infinite.
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  11. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    But like so many phenomena that were beautiful at a distance-thunderheads, volcanic eruptions, the stars and planets-this alluring pain proved, at closer range, to be inhuman in its scale.
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  12. Jonathan Franzen _ The Corrections

    I'm saying that children are not supposed to get along with their parents. Your parents are not supposed to be your best friends. There's supposed to be some element of rebellion. That's how you define yourself as a person.
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