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All Fours

by Miranda July (Goodreads Author)

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Jean Santeuil

by Marcel Proust

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The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

by Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)

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Beki’s Quotes

“I too said haha.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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“Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose

tags: autumn, solitude

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“Human cities in particular, each one more or less according to its degree of perfection, surround the life of their inhabitants with poetry. They are images and reflections of the city and the world.”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God. Perennial Classics Series. ISBN: 0060959703 / 0-06-095970-3

tags: cities, poetry, roots

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“This is the meaning of philosophy, insofar as our condition condemns us to live among badly analyzed composites and to be badly analyzed composites ourselves.”
― Deleuze Gilles, Bergsonism

tags: badly-stated-problems, duration, intuition, philosophy

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“When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose

tags: greif, loss, time

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