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“His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom”
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“He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ”
― Nausea
― Nausea
Alec’s 2025 Year in Books
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