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determined to shake itself free of illusions. To withdraw a little from ‘literature’ and even from the experience of all and sundry, in order to give itself breathing space and announce that mankind is irredeemably foolish, that good sense
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“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“What they undertook to do
They brought to pass;
All things hang like a drop of dew
Upon a blade of grass.”
― W.B. Yeats: Poetry
They brought to pass;
All things hang like a drop of dew
Upon a blade of grass.”
― W.B. Yeats: Poetry
“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
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“This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first. Whether this world is still dependent on”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“when he heard the door open and saw Tereza come in, he raised his head and looked at her. She could not stand his stare; it almost frightened her. He did not look that way at Tomas, only at her. But never with such intensity. It was not a desperate look, or even sad. No, it was a look of awful, unbearable trust. The look was an eager question. All his life Karenin had waited for answers from Tereza, and he was letting her know (with more urgency than usual, however) that he was still ready to learn the truth from her.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being:
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being:
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