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Aaron Gertler
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No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph, made out of words, the only material capable of capturing the recesses of the soul it exposes.
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“Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
― Very Good, Jeeves!
― Very Good, Jeeves!
“The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?”
― The Darkness That Comes Before
― The Darkness That Comes Before
“Greed is your god, Kaz."
He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”
― Six of Crows
He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”
― Six of Crows
“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them." (From the Introduction of 1941's The Garden of Forking Paths)”
― Fictions
― Fictions
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