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Ashenden: or, The British Agent: Intrigue and Deception: A Literary Spy Thriller

by W. Somerset Maugham

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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

tags: appreciation, joy-of-life

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“What was he doing? Reading a little, maybe. We can't even be sure of this. In fact, his biographers have to admit they don't know much at all, and that, judging from appearances - at least between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three - he did absolutely nothing.”
― Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

tags: uninspirational

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“The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions, which time and mediocrity can resolve.”
― H.R. Trevor-Roper

tags: hobbes, trevor-roper

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“Femme Fatale: Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
Rigby Reardon: Maybe. I've been somewhere before.
~ "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid”
― Steve Martin - "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"

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“And Gilles, menacing and aloof, rides through the deserted villages with their sobbing, shuttered buildings. His impunity seems assured, what peasant would be mad enough to challenge a seignior capable of having him strung up at the drop of a hat?

'And just as the lowly born renounce bringing him to justice, his peers have no intention of seeking to bring him down for the sale of a load of peasants whom they openly despise...

'There is only one power which can rise above such feudal imbalances and earthly interests, only one power which avenges the oppressed and the weak; that of the Church. And it is indeed , the Church, in the person of Jean de Malestroit, which challenges the monster and fells him.”
― J-K Huysmans

tags: huysmans, the-damned

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