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Stephen Rowland
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Stephen Rowland said:
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Absolutely essential for all profoundly unhappy thinking people. I will be quoting Pessoa to the end of my days, I'm sure of it.
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“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
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“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.”
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“The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”
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“To accomplish nothing and die of the strain”
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“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet...When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world...”
― The Box Man
― The Box Man
Stone Bridge Press
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Stone Bridge Press was established in Berkeley, California, in 1989. We now have some 150 titles in print, covering such Japan-related areas as langua ...more
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