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Fernando Pessoa
“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Octavia E. Butler
“There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one.”
Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

John Cheever
“What moved him was a sense of those worlds around us, our knowledge however imperfect of their nature, or sense of their possessing some grain of our past and of our lives to come. It was that most powerful sense of our being alive on the planet. It was the most powerful sense of how singular, in the vastness of creation, is the richness of our opportunity. The sense of that hour was of an exquisite privilege, the great benefice of living here and renewing ourselves with love. What a paradise it seemed!”
John Cheever, Oh What a Paradise It Seems

Octavia E. Butler
“His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.”
Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

John Cheever
“When he was young, brooks had seemed to speak to him in the tongues of men and angels. Now that he was an old man who spoke five or six languages - all of them poorly - the sound of water seemed to be the language of his nativity, some tongue he had spoken before his birth. Soft and loud, high and low, the sound of water reminded him of eavesdropping in some other room than where the party was.”
John Cheever, Oh What a Paradise It Seems

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