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“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
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“But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house.
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A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.”
― Beloved
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A man ain't nothing but a man,' said Baby Suggs. 'But a son? Well now, that's somebody.”
― Beloved
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― The Great Gatsby
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― The Great Gatsby
“But I cannot express the discomfort I felt at this
intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room which I had succeeded in filling with my own personality until I thought no more of it than of myself. The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think—and to feel—such melancholy things.”
― In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room which I had succeeded in filling with my own personality until I thought no more of it than of myself. The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think—and to feel—such melancholy things.”
― In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
“But then, even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people. Even the simple act which we describe as “seeing someone we know” is to some extent an intellectual process.”
― In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
― In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove, Part 1
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