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Intimacy

by Hanif Kureishi

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Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul

by Taran N. Khan

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“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

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“How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.”
― Winfried Georg Sebald, Vertigo

tags: alien, consciousness, countriless, foreign, stateless, unfitting

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“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

tags: humour

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“Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

tags: ashes, flames, love

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“...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.”
― Alberto Moravia

tags: philosophical-musings

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