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“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.”
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“A person's life consists of a collection of events,
the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole,
not because it counts more than the previous ones
but because once they are included in a life,
events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather,
corresponds to an inner architecture.”
― Mr Palomar
the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole,
not because it counts more than the previous ones
but because once they are included in a life,
events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather,
corresponds to an inner architecture.”
― Mr Palomar
“I smile sadly, in light of what came next
to think that I told her
If you can just hang on, things are bound to improve
she made me a liar, too--
the woman who dug the hole
I've been trying to write myself out of
ever since”
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to think that I told her
If you can just hang on, things are bound to improve
she made me a liar, too--
the woman who dug the hole
I've been trying to write myself out of
ever since”
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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
“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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