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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
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“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“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.”
― On Love
― 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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