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Flights

by Olga Tokarczuk

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L'homme-joie

by Christian Bobin

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The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

by Byung-Chul Han

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Sol’s Quotes

“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits best?”
― Sylvia Plath

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“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
― Charles Mackay

tags: cowardice, enemies, friendship

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“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: change, life, waiting

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“The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.”
― Heraclitus, Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments

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“I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference. But just because my own passions are not of that sort which burst out with violence to devastate and kill, the common mind is not aware of their existence. Nevertheless, I am greatly moved by them at times, and it has more than once been my fate to lose my sleep for the sake of a few pages written by some forgotten monk or printed by some humble apprentice of Peter Schöffer. And if these fierce enthusiasms are slowly being quenched in me, it is only because I am being slowly quenched myself. Our passions are ourselves. My old books are Me. I am just as old and thumb-worn as they are.”
― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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