“Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
“Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.”
― Molloy
― Molloy
“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy”
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-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy”
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“Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”
― The Unnamable
― The Unnamable
“Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
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