May 2013
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Actually, there’s a great deal I haven’t mentioned. How could I possibly include...
– The Murder of Halland, Pia Juul
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Isn’t hate merely the result of wounded love?
– Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
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I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:
18 rooms
$37,000...
– Richard Brautigan
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… sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out,
one moment your life is a stone...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sunset” in Selected Poems, trans. Robert Bly (via proustitute)
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its...
– Annie Dillard
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April 2013
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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally...
– Henry Miller
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main...
– Michel Foucault
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[…] The language is a game as well,
in which love can mean nothing,
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– from Language Lessons 1976, Heather McHugh
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All language is but a poor translation.
– Franz Kafka
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