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Update:Having dealt with The Ambassadors, I am somewhat more hopeful about looking at The Portrait again. Bellow is the summary of my previously unsuccessful attempt...
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“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they move among the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“L'inferno dei viventi non è qualcosa che sarà; se ce n'è uno, è quello che è già qui, l'inferno che abitiamo tutti i giorni, che formiamo stando insieme. Due modi ci sono per non soffrirne. Il primo riesce facile a molti: accettare l'inferno e diventarne parte fino al punto di non vederlo più. Il secondo è rischioso ed esige attenzione e apprendimento continui: cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non è inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.”
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“Living is a horizontal fall.”
― Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure
― Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
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