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Book cover for Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
His family would haunt him for life: and nothing in his writing gives the impression he was surprised that it should be so. We are haunted animals: ghosts, Donne’s work and life suggest, should be treated as the norm.
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J.D. Salinger
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

Virginia Woolf
“One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.”
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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Rainer Maria Rilke
“Do not, do not, do not books for ever
hammer at people like perpetual bells?
When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Kōbō Abe
“Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.”
Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

Albert Camus
“Live to the point of tears.”
Albert Camus

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