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Fragile
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She wasn’t much for e-mail, hated the impersonal distance of it. People used it to hide from one another. It
“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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