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"Last night, I asked my husband to look through my Kobo reader and pick the next title for me to read. When I saw his pick I was like "wtf do you know how long this is" and he apparently had no idea. Well. Gotta start somewhere. So my adventure begins." 10 hours, 2 min ago

 
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Werner Herzog
“Taking a close look at - at what's around us there - there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of... overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle - Uh, we in comparison to that enormous articulation - we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban... novel... a cheap novel. We have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication... overwhelming growth and overwhelming lack of order. Even the - the stars up here in the - in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no real harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this, I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it. I love it very much. But I love it against my better judgment.”
Werner Herzog, Burden of Dreams

Robert Walser
“I don’t want to go running down some career path—supposedly such a grand enterprise. What’s so grand about it: people acquiring crooked backs at an early age from stooping at undersized desks, wrinkled hands, pale faces, mutilated workday trousers, trembling legs, fat bellies, sour stomachs, bald spots upon their skulls, bitter, snappish, leathery, faded, insipid eyes, ravaged brows and the consciousness of having been conscientious fools. No thank you!”
Robert Walser, The Tanners

Sei Shōnagon
“185. It Is Getting So Dark
I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like.”
Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

Jane Austen
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Jon Fosse
“I try to breathe from what I am inside, to keep the sorrow away, or in any case keep it under control so the fear doesn't take over, so the terrors don't overwhelm me, and I know that this sudden sorrow, these sudden terrors that have welled up inside me will get smaller and I will get bigger
- Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II”
Jon Fosse, Septology

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