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"not to accuse anyone of false consciousness but i feel like people, myself included, were too quick to make a judgement on this book" — Jan 21, 2022 05:25AM
"not to accuse anyone of false consciousness but i feel like people, myself included, were too quick to make a judgement on this book" — Jan 21, 2022 05:25AM
“The pleasure of recognizing that one may have to undergo the same realizations, write the same notes in the margin, return to the same themes in one’s work, relearn the same emotional truths, write the same book over and over again–not because one is stupid or obstinate or incapable of change, but because such revisitations constitute a life.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
“You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.”
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“Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!
The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.”
― The Collected Poems
In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.”
― The Collected Poems
“All my life,
since I was ten,
I’ve been waiting
to be in
this hell here
with you;
all I’ve ever
wanted, and
still do.”
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since I was ten,
I’ve been waiting
to be in
this hell here
with you;
all I’ve ever
wanted, and
still do.”
―
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