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I feel a pang of pity for this lady, probably just as terrified and clueless as everyone else, trying to be a pillar of unruffled calm. I imagine a massive canvas smeared with obscure blotches, and the Statue of Liberty rising from the ...more
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“If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.”
Mark E. Smith, Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
tags: music

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself; for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Haruki Murakami
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

W.B. Yeats
“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
William Butler Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds

“The great appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!”
James Larkin

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This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more
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