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Shania

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Wise Blood

by Flannery O'Connor

bookshelves: currently-reading, southen-gothic, gothic, classics

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Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre

bookshelves: existential-lit, currently-reading, philosophy, classics, french-literature

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100 Years of Fashion (Pocket Editions)

by Cally Blackman

bookshelves: owned-books, fashion-history, art, nonfiction, currently-reading

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Shania’s Quotes

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, meaning-of-life, suicide, witty

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“I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: freedom, writing

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“To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: insightful, lonely, thought-provoking

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“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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