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Dubliners
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Now that she was gone he understood how lonely her life must have been, sitting night after night alone in that room. His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ceased to exist, became a memory—if anyone remembered him.
“some preached asceticism, others licentiousness. All preached confusion.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“I am pleased with defeat because it has occurred, because it is irrevocably united to all those events which are, which were, and which will be, because to censure or to deplore a single real occurrence is to blaspheme the universe.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“Borelius inquires mockingly: “Why didn’t he renounce his renunciation? Or renounce the idea of renouncing his renunciation?”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“When the end draws near, there no longer remain any remembered images; only words remain.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
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