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24 MAR 26: "The Four Dutchmen" ***
This is the last story in the Cosmopolitans collection. But since the collection has no central theme or order to it, this is also just another story.
Lake many of these stories, "The Four Dutchmen" is more of an excu ...more "
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute save for one prophetic bird, who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence, as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.”
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“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
― The Warden
― The Warden
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