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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

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Rachel’s Quotes

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: honesty, truth-telling, writing

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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories”
― Anne Rice

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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

tags: history, memories, past

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“My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

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“I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

tags: desire, disgust, existentialism, life

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