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“And people did this, just like you, you and me. These people did not come from another planet. [...] They were human beings, just like us. And it was not Hitler who arrested me, not Goering, not Goebbels. The grocer, the janitor, the tailor, the shoemaker, the baker, they suddenly got a uniform, a swastika armband, and there they were, the master race”
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“✓In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.
✓Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.
✓Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.
✓Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world
✓While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch”
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✓Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.
✓Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.
✓Happy is the person who can keep a quiet heart, in the chaos and tumult of this modern world
✓While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch”
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“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
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“Life is essentially one long search for an ashtray.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Imagine lying on ice and not being cold. We are all in corpse pose on the mats. What she really said was imagine a place of safety and peace.”
― Bough Down
― Bough Down
David Foster Wallace
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A group for the amazing work of David Foster Wallace, now deceased. RIP 1962-2008 Feel free to add his books to the bookshelf for the group.
Women and Men
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