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“Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.”
― Philip Roth

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“everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death”
― Thomas Bernhard

tags: awareness, critical-thinking, pain, patience

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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: life

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