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""Is this fucking play about us?" is the line that repeatedly comes into mind as I turn from one page to the next. The way that Camus described the gurgling anxiety amongst the experts and their hesitance to call it for what it is to placate public opinion up until the Plague ravaged the town of Oran. Part II dissected the morbid reality that the townspeople had to endure. Yet, Camus injected so much humanity to it."
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“Suddenly he can spend an afternoon in Vienna looking at Vermeer’s The Art of Painting, and it’s hot outside, and if he wants he can buy himself a cheap cold glass of beer afterwards. It’s like something he assumed was just a painted backdrop all his life has revealed itself to be real: foreign cities are real, and famous artworks, and underground railway systems, and remnants of the Berlin Wall. That’s money, the substance that makes the world real. There’s something so corrupt and sexy about it.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“So many books, so little time.”
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“Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended. ”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
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