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    Marcel Proust
    “Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
    ― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
    tags: love
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    Marcel Proust
    “in all countries fools outnumber the rest;”
    ― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
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    Marcel Proust
    “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: memory, nostalgia, recollection
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    Marcel Proust
    “Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
    ― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive
    tags: beauty, imagination, proust, women
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    Marcel Proust
    “Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    James Joyce
    “Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: life, obituary
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    James Joyce
    “Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: ancient-rome, death, history, knives, murder, rome, suicide
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    James Joyce
    “Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
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    James Joyce
    “Don't eat a beefsteak. If you do the eyes of that cow will pursue you through all eternity.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: endurance, pacing, war-and-peace
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
    tags: books, people, reading
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    James Joyce
    “Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
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    James Joyce
    “When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
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    James Joyce
    “The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...”
    ― James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: beer, drinking, ulysses
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    Marcel Proust
    “Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Marcel Proust
    “Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.”
    ― Marcel Proust
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    Marcel Proust
    “And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.”
    ― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
    tags: forgetting, girl, memory
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    James Sallis
    “In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over . . . my spine an oversized question mark.”
    ― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly
    tags: detective
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    Jeet Thayil
    “I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay”
    ― Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis
    tags: addiction, bombay, opium
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    Roman Payne
    “Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.”
    ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
    tags: drugs, heroin, opiates, opium, poppies, poppy, quotes-from-novels, the-wanderess, wanderess
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    André Malraux
    “There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.”
    ― André Malraux
    tags: china, hashish, intoxication, islam, opium, woman
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    Sebastian Faulks
    “The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.”
    ― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
    tags: opium, pain
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    Sebastian Faulks
    “That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.”
    ― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
    tags: hypothetical, opium
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    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Opium ain't got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today.”
    ― Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White
    tags: hope, opium
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