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  1. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.
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  2. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    Together, they were like one of those superhero alliances in the comic books, invincible, an unconquerable confederation of boredom and confusion."
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  3. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    Running along the back wall was a long glass trophy case filled with loving cups, ribbons, school and sports memorabilia; in ominous proximity were several large funeral wreaths which, in conjunction with the trophies, gave that corner of the room a Kentucky Derby sort of look.
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  4. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    At one time I had liked the idea, that the act, at least, had bound us together; we were not ordinary friends, but friends till-death-do-us-part. This thought had been my only comfort in the aftermath of Bunny's death. Now it made me sick, knowing there was no way out. I was stuck with them, with all of them, for good.
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  5. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty -unless she is wed to something more meaningful -is always superficial
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  6. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    Sometimes when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over
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  7. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    Death is the mother of beauty""And what is beauty?""Terror""Well said. Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary, genuine beauty is always quite alarming
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  8. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    I had a feeling of déjà vu when, the next afternoon, Julian answered the door exactly as he had the first time, by opening it only a crack and looking through it warily, as if there were something wonderful in his office that needed guarding, something that he was careful not everyone should see. It was a feeling I would come to know well in the next months. Even now, years later and far away, sometimes in dreams I find myself standing before that white door, waiting for him to appear like the gatekeeper in a fairy story: ageless, watchful, sly as a child.
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  9. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    Reason is always apparent to a discerning eye. But luck? It's invisible, erratic, angelic.
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  10. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    You know that thing Julian used to say,' said Francis. 'Which thing?''About a Hindu saint being able to slay a thousand on the battlefield and it not being a sin unless he felt remorse.
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  11. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    I had never been to Brooklyn and didn't know a thing about it but I liked the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into?
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  12. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    A character like his disintegrates under analysis. It can only be defined by the anecdote, the chance encounter or the sentence overheard.
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