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Bell is currently reading

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Bell’s Quotes

“But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?”
― Adam Zagajewski, A Defense of Ardor: Essays

tags: ardor, death, defense-of-ardor, eternity, lasting

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“Love loves to return, to bring back to the origin, to begin loving from the first instant, love wants to love everything,”
― Hélène Cixous, Hélène Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing

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“We come out of darkness and return to darkness, with some experiences in between. But we don’t experience the beginning and the end, birth and death. We are not subjectively aware of them, they exist only in the world of objective events—and that’s that.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain: First Edition

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“And I want to accept my freedom without thinking what so many do, that existing is something for fools, a case of madness. Because that’s what it seems like. Existing isn’t logical.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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“Forgive me but I’m going to keep talking about me who am unknown to
myself, and as I write I’m a bit surprised because I discover I have a
destiny. Who hasn’t ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it
means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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