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“While I was writing the previous paragraph, I was prompted again to look at the photograph of the young actress and to compare that image with the image presently in my mind, but then I recalled that I had sold most of my books before moving from the city where I had lived for most of my life to this township near the border.
I had sold the books because this house where I now live is a mere cottage with space for only a few hundred books. I had sold the books also in order to keep faith with myself. For some years past, I had claimed that whatever deserved to be remembered from my experiences as a reader of books was, in fact, safely remembered. I had claimed also the converse of this: whatever I had forgotten from my experiences as a reader of books had not deserved to be remembered.”
― Gerald Murnane, Border Districts

“Man muss das Leben leben, das ist alles, schlicht und einfach. Ein fetter Saufbruder hat's mir neulich beim Verlassen der Bar zum falschen Weg nachgerufen. Literatur ist nichts wert.”
― Roberto Bolaño

“Without context, we'd all be monsters.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am

“One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am