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“Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.”
― 10:04
― 10:04
“The past believed in dates. And everyone’s life consisted of dates, giving life a rhythm and sense of gradation, as if from the eminence of a date one could look back and down, and see the past itself. A clear, comprehensible past, divided up into squares of events, lines of paths taken.”
― Death and the Penguin
― Death and the Penguin
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Eleonora
― Eleonora
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