Mina Herz
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To be honest I am finding this book enjoyable but annoying because it is not clear what parts are actually attributed to the author, and which aren't. And I'm pre-empting this stupid argument of "oh its inherently a porous boundary - he's collapsing
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“All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky.”
― When We Were Orphans
― When We Were Orphans
“Everyone takes his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my sympathy, console him as best I can, and listen to him calmly when he assures me that I am fortunate. If I can only keep this up until the day I die I shall have had my revenge.”
― Papers and Journals: A Selection
― Papers and Journals: A Selection
“I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.”
― From the Other Shore & The Russian People and Socialism
― From the Other Shore & The Russian People and Socialism
“I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it.”
― First Love
― First Love
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