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“The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.”
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“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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