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Karl Ove Knausgård
“All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me.”
Karl Ove Knausgård, A Man in Love

C.G. Jung
“But what a dreary world it would be if the rules were not violated sometimes!”
C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

George Orwell
“I have known numbers of bourgeois Socialists, I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table-manners.”
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

Horatius
“Nunc est bibendum!”
Horace

John Steinbeck
“During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

31572 Reading the Chunksters — 400 members — last activity Jul 06, 2024 09:13AM
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