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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.
“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.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“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.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Do not, do not, do not books for ever
hammer at people like perpetual bells?
When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad.”
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hammer at people like perpetual bells?
When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad.”
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“Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
“Live to the point of tears.”
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