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Book cover for In The End, It Was All About Love
Sooner or later Berlin will punch you in the stomach. When it does, please try not to take this personally—instead, try to treat it as a passport stamp, as a sign of your arrival. You won’t get on here if you don’t. If you hang around long ...more
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Patti Smith
“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
Patti Smith, Just Kids

Patti Smith
“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
Patti Smith, Just Kids

Jack Kerouac
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

Patti Smith
“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
Patti Smith, Just Kids

Alain de Botton
“Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.”
Alain de Botton, On Love

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For all those people out there who love the best detective of all times, or detective novels in general. Including the brilliant authors: Sir Arthur C ...more
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