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by Rachel Cusk

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“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

tags: inspirational, monotony, nausea, sartre

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“She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

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“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: art

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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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