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""This is the end, then. Please be so good as to allow me to take your life. I will quickly follow you in death." -- R.A." — 2 hours, 47 min ago
""This is the end, then. Please be so good as to allow me to take your life. I will quickly follow you in death." -- R.A." — 2 hours, 47 min ago
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" I.F.S. and His Aunt: She was a woman washing laundry in basins filled with black water; she was a woman cooking for children: comfort, cultural, and seasonal foods; she was a woman plowing with raw hands: cuts on fingertips and bruises on the dorsum of her nose; she was a woman that cared for an angry old man and birds that sang broken. In short, she was a woman without a woman's mercy." — Apr 10, 2026 09:54AM
" I.F.S. and His Aunt: She was a woman washing laundry in basins filled with black water; she was a woman cooking for children: comfort, cultural, and seasonal foods; she was a woman plowing with raw hands: cuts on fingertips and bruises on the dorsum of her nose; she was a woman that cared for an angry old man and birds that sang broken. In short, she was a woman without a woman's mercy." — Apr 10, 2026 09:54AM
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"She was smiling. "You have a nice sense of irony."
"It's my sad life." -- S.K." — Apr 13, 2026 11:08AM
"She was smiling. "You have a nice sense of irony."
"It's my sad life." -- S.K." — Apr 13, 2026 11:08AM
“If I ever get reincarnated, it occurred to me, let me make certain I don't come back as a paperclip.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“For instance, supposing that the planet earth were not a sphere but a gigantic coffee table, how much difference in everyday life would that make?”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“And perhaps he had made no mistake at all, his name really was called, it having been the teacher's intention to make the rewarding of the best student at the same time a punishment for the worst one.”
― Parables and Paradoxes
― Parables and Paradoxes
“You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for the artist.”
― A Life in Letters
― A Life in Letters
“He asked me several things, but I couldn't answer, indeed I didn't even understand his questions. So I said: "Perhaps you are sorry now that you invited me, so I'd better go," and I was about to get up. But he stretched his hand out over the table and pressed me down. "Stay," he said, "that was only a test. He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.”
― Parables and Paradoxes
― Parables and Paradoxes
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