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Darl Quotes

Four of the best book quotes from Darl
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“Dewey Dell rises, heaving to her feet. She looks down at the face. It is like a casting of fading bronze upon the pillow, the hands alone still with any semblance of life: a curled, gnarled inertness; a spent yet alert quality from which weariness, exhaustion, travail had not yet departed, as though they doubted even yet the actuality of rest, guarding with horned and penurious alertness the cessation which they know cannot last.”
William Faulkner
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As I Lay Dying
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Darl
Dewey Dell
Addie Bundren
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death
life
exhaustion
rest
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“Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old yours, the old lusts, the old despairs. That’s why you must walk up the hills do you can ride down.”
Darl
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life
despair
lust
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“I don’t know what I am. I don’t know if I am or not.”
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“Cash is wet to the skin. Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.”

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