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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.”
― Molloy
― Molloy
“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”
― Metapolitics
― Metapolitics
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”
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