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“It is best to believe almost everything one writes and almost nothing one reads, because in order to believe something completely one must have lived it, and one does not live a book one has read, only a book one has written.”
― Jonathan Kemp, London Triptych

“But we consist of everything the world consists of, each of us, and just as our body contains the genealogical table of evolution as far back as the fish and even much further, so we bear everything in our soul that once was alive in the soul of men.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Anyway, as a consequence, each day has now become a new and unique informational unit, interrupting and replacing the informational world of the day before... The present has become discontinuous each day, even each hour of each day, replaces and makes irrelevant the time before, and the events of our lives make sense only in relation to a perpetually updating timeline of news content.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Amor, ch'a nullo amato amar perdona”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno