I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she [Gabri… - Anne Rice

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I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she [Gabrielle] said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power? Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough.

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Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien, 4 October 1941 – 11 December 2021) was an American novelist, known as the author of The Vampire Chronicles.

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Pen Names: Anne Rampling • A. N. Roquelaure

Birth Name: Howard Allen Frances O'Brien

Alternative Names: Anne O'Brien • Howard Allen O'Brien

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