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The Umbrella (Penguin Archive)

by Tove Ditlevsen

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“Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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“At the bottom of everything there is the hallelujah.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

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“No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings

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“It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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“My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

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