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The Artist's Way Workbook

by Julia Cameron

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Es waren Habichte in der Luft

by Siegfried Lenz

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Ulysses

by James Joyce

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“Perhaps human intelligence was a mistake, and everyone who celebrated the escape from the Garden of Eden was wrong. Perhaps the gift of rationality did not outweigh the debilitating agony that came with it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

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“The world is not a complete system; there is always an exception. No explanation for its existence; no reason why one might expect it to have existed before or to ever exist again. The world was simply unknowable; exceptions cropped up all the time, and all you had to do to beat the odds was just look.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

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“How wonderful, truly, to have a friend whose silence you adored.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

tags: admiration, comfort, companionship, connection, emotional-warmth, friendship, intimacy, silence, simplicity, trust

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“Those who had nothing substantial to brag about bragged the loudest.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

tags: arrogance, behavior, character-insight, ego, emptiness, human-nature, insecurity, pride, realism, social-commentary

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“And so perhaps it was entirely possible - common, even - for you to look into the eyes of someone you'd been falling in love with, someone you had spent every waking moment with, whose breathing sounded as familiar as your own - and fail to recognize them at all.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis