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Against the Day
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In discussions of patriotism, you sometimes encounter the view that you cannot be proud of your country because you can only be proud of something you have yourself achieved—maybe even “by definition.” But this isn’t true: when people are ...more
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“It was in the southwest area that the trailers had begun to move in, and everything that goes with them, like an exurban asteroid belt: junked-out cars up on blocks, tire swings hanging on frayed rope, glittering beer cans lying beside the roads, ragged wash hung on lines between makeshift poles, the ripe smell of sewage from hastily laid septic tanks.”
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Rodrigo Fresán
“The Lonely Man had descended to the lights of the city in the darkness of the early morning (the funicular began its service at 5:30 a.m.) and, ah, it’s so hard to turn off an unsound mind inside the unsound body of a writer.”
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Angela Carter
“It was an event of too massive arbitrariness for me to comprehend but, as the rain-washed light fell more and more wistfully on the gigantic tip of sandstone that killed my bearded lady, my reptilian friend, my shooting star and my blind philosopher, I became most deeply aware of mortality.”
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Fernando Pessoa
“All unhappiness enters through the window of observation and the door of thought.”
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Fernando Pessoa
“Yet dreamed landscapes are merely the smoke from known landscapes and the tedium of dreaming them is almost as great as the tedium of looking at the world. And hovering distractedly above all this, like a vast blue sky, the horror of living.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

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