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“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Why love what you will lose?
There is nothing else to love.”
― Louise Glück, The Triumph of Achilles

“And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain