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So just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.
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“The most important thing is spiritual labor...Books...You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can't live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.”
― Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
― Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”
― Childhood
― Childhood
“Wherever you turn, you run up against your childhood and hurt yourself because it’s sharp-edged and hard, and stops only when it has torn you completely apart. It seems that everyone has their own and each is totally different. My brother’s childhood is very noisy, for example, while mine is quiet and furtive and watchful. No one likes it and no one has any use for it.”
― Childhood
― Childhood
“Hell is other people, said Jean-Paul Sartre. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I think he means you.”
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
“I think I have the courage to doubt everything; I think I have the courage to fight everything. But I do not have the courage to know anything, nor to possess, to own anything. Most people complain that the world is so prosaic, that life isn't like a romantic novel where opportunities are always so favourable. What I complain of is that life is not like a novel where there are hard-hearted fathers, and goblins and trolls to fight with, enchanted princesses to free. What are all such enemies taken together compared to the pallid, bloodless, glutinous nocturnal shapes with which I fight and to which I myself give life and being.”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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