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Martyr!
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Every time Cyrus had been there, the baristas were almost off-puttingly friendly, Stepfordian. He’d felt tempted to ask for his coffee with just a splash of misanthropy, please.
“He might be ragged and cold or even starving, but so long as he could read, think and watch for meteors, he was, as he said, free in his own mind.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
“I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been able to keep my secret I have overcome the suffering of loneliness. To go right to the end implies knowing how to keep one's secret. And, today, there is no greater joy than to live alone and unknown. My deepest joy is to write. To accept the world and to accept pleasure—but only when I am stripped bare of everything. I should not be worthy to love the bare and empty beaches if I could not remain naked in the presence of myself. For the first time I can understand the meaning of the word happiness without any ambiguity. It is a little different from what men normally mean when they say: 'i am happy.”
― Notebooks 1935-1942
― Notebooks 1935-1942
“Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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