The Secret History sentence meme.
- “Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory.”
- “Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
- “Beauty is terror.”
- “Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
- “This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
- “But how, how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?”
- “Are you happy here?”
- “But you’re not very happy where you are, either.”
- “Some things are too terrible to grasp at once.”
- “There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty.”
- “Love doesn’t conquer everything.”
- “And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
- “Anything is grand if it’s done on a large enough scale.”
- “It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
- “In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
- “I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.”
- “How did they get there?”
- “When did this happen?”
- “Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?”
- “Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.”
- “Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn’t be any other way.”
- “It is easy to see things in retrospect.”
- “Death is the mother of beauty.”
- “There are such things as ghosts.”
- “All those layers of silence upon silence.”
- “What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?”
- “You know, everybody is saying that you’re dead.”
- “We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one.”
- “Really? I think it’s rather grand.”
- “How quickly he fell; how soon it was over.”
- “I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
- “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
- “You amaze me.”
- “You think nothing exists if you can’t see it.”
- “I see so little of you these days.”
- “I feel that you’re becoming just a shadow in my life.”