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I found an old copy of this book in my neighbourhood's Little Free Library last night and took it home on a whim. It's like a math textbook but with far more interesting story problems. My favourite bit is that according to my career number, I could
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“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.”
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
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“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
― Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
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