"The Dying Animal" Quotes
A professor's affair with a young woman explores themes of desire, mortality, and the complexity of human relationships.
fiction | 156 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The more you love, the more you can love – and the more intensely you love.
Desire can be eradicated, appetite controlled, and finally denied.
It's the sound of your own voice you miss the most.
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
Seducing everybody with your voice, with your appearance, with your body, with your smile, with your wit, with your mind, with your intellect, with your charm.
The whole point of literature is to take you away from your own life, to make you dissatisfied with your own life, and then to bring you back to it with greater awareness.
You know, in the end, it's easier to please yourself than to please somebody else.
The most profound experiences in a person's life are not spoken, they're lived.
There is no such thing as a perfect couple. All couples have flaws, but the key is to accept and appreciate each other despite those flaws.
