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Against Nature

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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jüri said: " the bleakest of bleak comedies - a man shouting into the void of all being, all affect, all things both natural and manmade. the void normally wouldn’t care, but in this particular case it’s so very annoyed by this man’s sheer arrogance that it shout ...more "

Jan 11, 2021 03:58AM · see review

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The Solitudes: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)

by Luis de Góngora y Argote

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The Romantic Agony

by Mario Praz

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jüri’s Quotes

“She wanted out of that decorating scheme.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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“Forgive this breaking body as you forgive the star, the star whispering in the wind when the star is no more. Forgive this secret none can tell. None can tell and live.”
― Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

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“Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

tags: beauty

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“My maturing of a theme would already be a cantabile aria— so let somebody else make another song— the song of the maturing of my quartet. This is before the maturing. The melody would be the fact.”
― Clarice Lispector

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“Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after. ”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: love

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