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alex said:
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Kiss, Kiss
"The Landlady"
read this when i was younger and it was just as good as i remember. the juxtaposition of appearance and reality is really well-written; it's so good i want to write an essay about it
rating: 4/5
"William and Mary"
A d ...more "
He generally operated on the assumption that the only factor holding people back from widespread slaughter was fear—of the gallows, of damnation, of being thought not quite nice by one’s neighbors.
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?”
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“A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.”
― Death of a Salesman
― Death of a Salesman
“Us, little children of the dust, children of a day, who with so many burdens do burden us with taking thought and with fears and desires and devious schemings of the mind, so that we wax old before our time and fall weary ere the brief day be spent and one reaping-hook gather us home at last for all our pains.”
― The Worm Ouroboros
― The Worm Ouroboros
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