Of the nothing The nothing I fear above all else I decline to embrace it And step inside My warm soft space again
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― Père Goriot
― Père Goriot
“Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God…especially when their gods became threatened.”
― Origin
― Origin
“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.”
― The Adventures of Augie March
― The Adventures of Augie March
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