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“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“You mustn't ask too much of human endurance, one must be merciful.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“My library is an archive of longings.”
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“They showed considerable anxiety because they were in the process of loving beauty.”
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“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...
This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
― Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition
This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
― Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition
The Kindred Spirits
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Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives"
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Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"
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Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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The blurb asks the questions about Humbert Humbert: "Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is ...more
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