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“Novels are narratives to be in. To live in. To exist in. Not primarily forms to jump into and get to the end of. It’s a substance that the great big novel becomes…which invites you to be in it, not necessarily to leave it. To move around in it. To move laterally.”
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“Napoleon taught ordinary people that they could make history, and convinced his followers they were taking part in an adventure, a pageant, an experiment, an epic whose splendour would draw the attention of posterity for centuries to come.”
― Napoleon: A Life
― Napoleon: A Life
“Pain doesn't make people, love does. Love is what saves them. Which you would know but you have none around you.”
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“The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.”
― Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938
― Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938
“Our close reunion will create poetry. Between us we shall make a god.”
― On Wine and Hashish
― On Wine and Hashish
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