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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

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Something Happened

by Joseph Heller

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Good Morning, Midnight

by Jean Rhys

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"Good morning, midnight!
I’m coming home,
Day got tired of me -
How could I of him?

Sunshine was a sweet place,
I liked to stay -
But Morn didn’t want me - now -
So good night, Day!" — Jul 12, 2023 03:55AM

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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin

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very beautiful letters to the friend that have been published), except that the very notion of thus becoming a useful member of society would have repelled him. No doubt he agreed with Baudelaire, “Être un homme utile m’a paru toujours ...more

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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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