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“No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they’re also painfully unoriginal.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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“His mind was concrete and moved with difficulty in regions of the abstract; but, even when he could not follow the reasoning, it gave him a curious pleasure to follow the tortuosities of thoughts that threaded their
nimble way on the edge of the incomprehensible. Sometimes great philosophers seemed to have nothing to say to him, but at others he recognised a mind with which he felt himself at home.”
― W Somerset Maughan

tags: philosophy, reading

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“Elle lui semblait si belle, si séduisante, si différente des gens du commun qu'il ne comprenait pas pourquoi personne n'était comme lui bouleversé par le chant de castagnette de ses talons sur les pavés de la rue, ni pourquoi les cœurs ne battaient pas la chamade aux soupirs de ses volants, ni pourquoi personne ne devenait fou d'amour sous la caresse de ses cheveux, l'envol de ses mains, l'or de son sourire.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: amour

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“I know what you’re thinking about,” said Tweedle-dum, “But it ain’t so, nohow.” “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

tags: absurd, absurdity, language, linguistics, logic

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“And suddenly it struck me that walking the length of Nevsky Prospekt was like walking the length of Russian literature. Right there at the beginning—just off the avenue on the Moika embankment—is the house where Pushkin ended his years. A few paces on are the rooms where Gogol began Dead Souls. Then the National Library, where Tolstoy scoured the archives. And here, behind the cemetery walls, lies brother Fyodor, our restless witness of the human soul entombed beneath the cherry trees.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

tags: literature, russia

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