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Dubliners

by James Joyce

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“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

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“history is what it is. it knows what it did. bad dog. bad blood. bad day to be a boy”
― Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

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“I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.”
― Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture

tags: archive-footage, bob-dylan, interview, singer

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“And isn't that how you become tender, vulnerable? The tissue-softening marination of your own mind, the quicksand of mental indulgence?”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

tags: anxiety, creativity, depression, empathy, mental-health

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