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Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist known for his intricate storytelling and exploration of complex human emotions. His most acclaimed works include "The Virgin Suicides" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Middlesex". He continues to influence contemporary literature with his unique voice and thought-provoking narratives. Here are 130 of his quotes:

All wisdom ends in paradox.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

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Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.

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During a warm winter rain... the basins of her collarbones collected water.

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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

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So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.

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Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

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The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

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Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

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Every letter was a love letter.

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The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

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We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it-that makes no sense. What mycould never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.

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It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

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She wanted out of that decorating scheme.

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You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

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But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant.

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To start with, look at all the books.

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They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived-bound, in other words, for life.

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The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. "I don't think we'd ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she'd go on jumping out of it forever.

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She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

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There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

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