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That the things in life which don’t go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do.
“Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention.”
― Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
― Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”
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“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, "I have done with men.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
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My own music compilations accompanying some of my favourite books. The goal is to express/intensify a certain mood, feeling or historical/geographical ...more
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