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The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Book of Longing

by Leonard Cohen

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I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman

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christine’s Quotes

“When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.”
― Raymond Carver, The Bridle

tags: dreams, the-bridle

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“We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

tags: retrospect, revelation, understanding

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“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“…et puis on recommence encore le lendemain
avec seulement la même règle que la veille
et qui est d'éviter les grandes joies barbares
de même que les gr-andes douleurs
comme un crapaud contourne une pierre sur son chemin…”
― Charles Cros

tags: poetry

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