“I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.”
― Cosmicomics
― Cosmicomics
“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.”
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“I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.”
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“How you die out in me:
down to the last
worn-out
knot of breath
you're there, with a
splinter
of life.”
― Poems of Paul Celan
down to the last
worn-out
knot of breath
you're there, with a
splinter
of life.”
― Poems of Paul Celan
“... you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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