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Thomas Pynchon
“I went to the zoo once and saw this thing they call an anteater. That was quite enough for me.”
Thomas Pynchon

Maurice Blanchot
“A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.”
Maurice Blanchot

Joris-Karl Huysmans
“The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle for his soul; the conviction that human life is nothing more than an uncertain struggle between heaven and hell; the faith in two opposed entities, Satan and Christ - all this was bound to engender those internal discords in which the soul, excited by the incessant fighting, stimulated as it were by the constant promises and threats, ends up by giving in and prostitutes itself to whichever of the two combatants has been more obstinate in its pursuit.”
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

François Truffaut
“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”
François Truffaut

Italo Calvino
“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
Italo Calvino

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3,202 books | 5,001 friends

Sacha L.
560 books | 5 friends

Myhte
2,991 books | 65 friends

Paul H.
15,117 books | 277 friends

Daniel
1,505 books | 100 friends

Hermes
2,321 books | 16 friends

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