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As Jude had to get up at three o'clock in the morning to heat the oven, and mix and set in the bread that he distributed later in the day, he was obliged to go to bed at night immediately after laying the sponge; so that if he could not
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“Thereupon he grew sad, and pondered this matter, and the conclusion of his thoughts was this, that true happiness and deep satisfaction could only be his if on occasion he succeeded in mirroring the world so perfectly in his poems that in these mirror images he would possess the essence of the world, purified and made eternal.”
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“Our brother Darl in a cage in Jackson where, his grimed hands lying light in the quiet interstices, looking out he foams.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“It’s like there was a fellow in every man that’s done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the same and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
Ian’s 2025 Year in Books
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