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Valley of the Dolls

by Jacqueline Susann

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

by Hermann Hesse

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"the great day of our household" — Mar 17, 2015 02:27PM

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“There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: death, fixity, pattern, perfection, society, universe

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