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2026! i can’t quite believe it. it feels like just yesterday that i picked up the first book that started this entire reading journey, on a saturday afternoon back in 2023 (yes i know it was not that long ago but it feels longer okay?) and now here w
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“Difficult as his task may be, so is writing an act that is perpetually longing in its attempt to cull the surreptitious meaning of life, which is always located experiences, beyond the obvious, possible, experience that is renewed with each new writing as if it were lived for the first time is the experience that drives today’s human being to live a perpetual state of tension as he stands face to face with destruction, death, torture, and solitude.”
― Closing His Eyes: Iraqi Short Stories
― Closing His Eyes: Iraqi Short Stories
“if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.”
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“Souls and thrones are irreconcilable.”
― And I Darken
― And I Darken
“You asked how large my sorrow is. And I answered, like a river in spring flowing east.”
― The Dragon Republic
― The Dragon Republic
“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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