To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

Eleanor Catton
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  1. Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

  2. For Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

  3. The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of themselves.

  4. The saxophone does not speak that language. The saxophone speaks the language of the underground, the jaded melancholy of the half-light–grimy and sexy and sweaty and hard. It is the language of orphans and bastards and whores.

  5. But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.

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