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“Shame is my lot, saith the widow, drudgery my calling, misery my fate, and ye condemn me but not that. So be it. Though the end of it be tears, shall I take the end for the beginning? Short through this be, I will laugh while I may, and not know sorrow only.”
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“I wonder if the emphasis might be placed differently, shifted from unconscious reaction to unrealized action: that is, our anxiety is less the mind shielding itself from death than the spirit's need to be.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“They have the power of description, and we succumb to the pictures they construct.”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“When I looked closely,
I saw these souls stooped in much the same way.
The degree to which their bodies were bent
was in proportion to how much their backs bore.
and even he who seemed the most patient
Seemed to say, weeping, "I can bear no more.”
― Inferno
I saw these souls stooped in much the same way.
The degree to which their bodies were bent
was in proportion to how much their backs bore.
and even he who seemed the most patient
Seemed to say, weeping, "I can bear no more.”
― Inferno
Ali’s 2025 Year in Books
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