“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― The Road
― The Road
“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― The Collected Writings
― The Collected Writings
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
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A challenge to see who is the faster reader, and also to train ourselves to read books more analytically and quickly. #billgates
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