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Cohen translation this time. Stellar through the first few chapters so far. I really loved Burton Raffel's translation but am happy to re-read this as many times as possible to appreciate each translator's take. I forgot about the seemingly imcompreh
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“Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.”
― An Ermine in Czernopol
― An Ermine in Czernopol
“Goodness preaches constantly, wants to change humanity, to work miracles from one day to the next, makes a show of its substance, wants to question essentials, but in fact is most often just hollow, lacking in substance, essence itself. A good word which has not yet been put into practice holds within itself every virgin possibility and is more than a good deed, the outcome of which is dubious, its effect arguable. In general words are always more than deeds.”
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“May your course not run from one end to the other; for such a course does not exist; but may every step you take mark a redressed projection.
With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.”
― El libro de Monelle
With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.”
― El libro de Monelle
“But me no buts, we're going to make whoopee, I tell you.”
― Moravagine
― Moravagine
“Why frighten little children with the dark when one can quiet them with it and lead them into dreams?”
― Autobiography of a Corpse
― Autobiography of a Corpse
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