Henry’s a perfectionist, I mean, really-really kind of inhuman – very brilliant, very erratic and enigmatic. He’s a stiff, cold person, Machiavellian, ascetic and he’s made himself what he is by sheer strength of will. His aspiration is to be this Platonic creature of pure rationality and that’s why he’s attracted to the Classics, and particularly to the Greeks – all those high, cold ideas of beauty and perfection.
-Donna Tartt
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