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  1. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    You sense my loneliness, {...} my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me, Mother. I'm too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer, that's all
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  2. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
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  3. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    Do devils love each other? Do they walk arm in arm in hell saying, "Ah, you are my friend, how I love you," things like that to each other?...it was a matter of a concept of evil, wasn't it? All creatures in hell are supposed to hate one another, as all the saved hate the damned, without reservation.
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  4. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases--beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.
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  5. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
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  6. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    Oh, my darling, wish you were here!And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, andbecause the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over thesurface, steadily towards a sun which will never rise.
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  7. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.
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  8. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
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  9. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost."So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions."An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.
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  10. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.
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  11. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
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  12. Anne Rice _ The Vampire Lestat

    Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.
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