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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Valis
― Valis
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.”
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Literary Fiction by People of Color
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