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“The belly is a demon. It doesn't remember how well you treated it yesterday; it'll cry out for more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

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“But who are we, where do we come from
When all those years
Nothing but idle talk is left
And we are nowhere in the world?"
= MEETING =”
― Boris Pasternak, The Poems of Doctor Zhivago.

tags: boris-pasternak, dr-zhivago, meeting, poems

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“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

tags: humour

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