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“He knows that a lot of the literary people in college see books primarily as a way of appearing cultured, It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about. Even the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?”
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“Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.”
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“Back home, Connell’s shyness never seemed like much of an obstacle to his social life, because everyone knew who he was already, and there was never any need to introduce himself or create impressions about his personality. If anything, his personality seemed like something external to himself, managed by the opinions of others, rather than anything he individually did or produced. Now he has a sense of invisibility, nothingness, with no reputation to recommend him to anyone.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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