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Norwegian Wood

by Haruki Murakami

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The Prague Cemetery

by Umberto Eco

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Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII

by John Cornwell

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“Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and trees and in broadcasting sperm far around us.

The richness of the world is in its wastefulness.”
― Jean Cocteau, The Difficulty of Being

tags: writing

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“To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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“I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.”
― Federico García Lorca

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“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: balance, equilibrium, evil, good, knowledge, taoism

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“Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for salvation. William argued holiness for these "second Sheep," without whom there'd be no elect. You can bet the Elect in Boston were pissed off about that. And it got worse. William felt that what Jesus was for the elect, Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite. Everything in the Creation has its equal and opposite counterpart. How can Jesus be an exception? could we feel for him anything but horror in the face of the unnatural, the extracreational? Well, if he is the son of man, and if what we feel is not horror but love, then we have to love Judas too. Right? How William avoided being burned for heresy, nobody knows.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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