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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“And yet in a way one might say that the whole of life is a tissue of prodigious coincidences”
― The Surgeon's Mate
― The Surgeon's Mate
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
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“I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. And to alter now, cleanly and sanely, I want to shuffle off this loose living randomness: people; reviews; fame; all the glittering scales; and be withdrawn, and concentrated.”
― A Writer's Diary
― A Writer's Diary
“There are few who are worthy to understand what I feel. [...] I seek out those who are of this chosen few, and I avoid the rest.”
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
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