“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.”
― The City & the City
― The City & the City
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily,often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul"-- Joyce Carole Oates”
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“I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.”
― Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975
― Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
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