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“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot
“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot
“Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.”
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“Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot
“Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
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