Cynthia Ozick - The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)

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Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

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Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

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Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

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He started on the first page and finished on the last. He was not a skimmer or a sniffer; he read meticulously, as if, swimming, he were being filmed in slow motion.

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Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

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Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

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Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

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