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Legends of the Fall

by Jim Harrison

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Eleven

by Patricia Highsmith

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Bruce’s Quotes

“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

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“The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: actualization, fight, identification, self-realization, uncertainly

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“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
― David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

tags: 1956, b-a-s-s, greenleaf, o-henry-memorial

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