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“Passing a joint doesn’t quite resemble the wafer and the chalice, does it? But thinking symbolically, where’s the difference, really?”
― Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor 3E: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from The Great Gatsby to The Hate You Give

“alone with time and grief and the sorrow of remembering, the cruelty of my existence and of my death still to come.”
― Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones

“And humiliation in one form or another never let go of me, a sense of the mad vanity of my gestures, but this humiliation and this vanity too placed themselves at my service, and I profited from them with an evil, limitless joy.”
― Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones

“there were already so many people that if one threw up a grain of sand it would not find its way to the earth again.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart