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Book: The Angel Esmeralda
Quotes of Book: The Angel Esmeralda

Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
Me doy cuenta ahora de que el primer día apenas llegué a mirar. Creía estar mirando, pero solo estaba percibiendo un mero barrunto de lo que hay en estos cuadros. Ahora es cuando estoy empezando a mirar.
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
Você não sente às vezes um poder dentro de você?", pergunta Vollmer. "Um estado extremo de saúde, sei lá. Uma saúde arrogante. É isso. Você se sente tão bem que começa a achar que é um pouco superior às outras pessoas. Uma espécie de força vital. Um otimismo sobre você mesmo, que é gerado quase que em detrimento dos outros. Você não sente isso às vezes?" {Sinto, sim.} "Deve ter um termo em alemão que quer dizer isso. Mas onde eu quero chegar é que esse sentimento poderoso é muito - sei lá - delicado. É isso. Um dia você sente, no dia seguinte de repente você se torna insignificante e condenado. Uma coisinha de nada dá errado e você se sente condenado, totalmente fraco e derrotado e incapaz de agir de modo poderoso, ou até mesmo sensato. Tirando você, todo mundo tem sorte, e você é um azarado, impotente, triste, incompetente e condenado." {Sei, sei.}
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
Quando tutto è nuovo, il piacere è tutto in superficie.
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
We listen to the old radio shows. Light flares and spreads across the blue-banded edge, sunrise, sunset, the urban grids in shadow. There is a sweetness in the tenor voice of the young man singing, a simple vigour that time and distance and random noise have enveloped in eloquence and yearning. Every sound, every lilt of strings has this veneer of age.
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
Don't you sometimes feel a power in you? An extreme state of good health. An arrogant healthiness. That's it. You are feeling so good you begin thinking you're a little superior to most people. An optimism about yourself that you generate at the expense of others. Don't you sometimes feel this?
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
There is a seaward bulge of stratocumulus. Sun glint and littoral drift. I see blooms of plankton in a blue of such Persian richness it seems an animal rapture, a colour change to express some form of intuitive delight.
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
People had hoped to be caught up in something bigger than themselves. They thought it would be a shared crisis. They would feel a sense of shared purpose, shared destiny. Like a snowstorm that blankets a large city – but lasting months, lasting years, carrying everyone along, creating fellow feeling where there was only suspicion and fear. The war would ennoble everything we say and do. What was impersonal would become personal. What was solitary would be shared.
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
To men at this remove, it is as though things exist in their particular physical form in order to reveal the hidden simplicity of some powerful mathematical truth.
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
It makes a man feel universal, floating over the continents, seeing the rim of the world, a line as clear as a compass arc, knowing it is just a turning of the bend to Atlantic twilight, to sediment plumes and kelp beds, an island chain glowing in the dusky sea.
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
All human existence is a trick of light.
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
Do we have to believe something happened exactly the way it was shown by artists?
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Don DeLillo _ The Angel Esmeralda
This spot was so close to perfect we would not even want to tell ourselves how lucky we were, having been delivered to it. The best of new places had to be protected from our own cries of delight. We would hold the words for weeks or months, for the soft evening when a stray remark would set us to recollecting. I guess we believed, together, that the wrong voice can obliterate a landscape.
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