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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

A Game of Chess and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol

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“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism”
― Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems, 1947-1980

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“They talk without economy, nothing saved for later, nothing portioned out.”
― Zoey Leigh Peterson, Next Year, For Sure

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“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is forbidden.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: absurd, philosophy

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“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
― Henry Miller

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