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“Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves - living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they'd briefly managed to forget.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
“It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
“I like life well enough to want to live it awake”
― The Immoralist
― The Immoralist
“...Our beauty lies in this extended capacity for convolution.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
― Existentialism and Human Emotions
― Existentialism and Human Emotions
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