“The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.”
― Selected Poems
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.”
― Selected Poems
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― 1984
― 1984
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
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