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The Vampire Lestat (1985)
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I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid.
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I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
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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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I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
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I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she [Gabrielle] said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power? Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough.
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Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.
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None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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Born:
October 4, 1941
Died:
December 11, 2021
(aged 80)
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