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Let the River Stand

by Vincent O'Sullivan

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“The greater their likeness to each other, the more unlike they are to me.”
― André Gide, The Immoralist

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“She felt like fastening little labels on the furniture: Lady Louise Carrington Lounge Chair, Last used August 1923. Not for the benefit of posterity: but to remove her own self into another world, another realm of existence.”
― D.H. Lawrence, St. Mawr / The Man Who Died

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“And yet in my experience a certain amount of daily maintenance work on the interior of the nose was necessary, physically necessary, simply to avoid panicky feelings of claustrophobia, especially in the dry winter months. Those high hardened ridges had to be removed.”
― Nicholson Baker, Room Temperature

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“There's a special dispensation in the sensuousness of an unshared bed, at least for a while, until sleeping alone begins to assume its own quiet sadness.”
― Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

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“Biologically developed to be conscious of our existence, we treat our perceived identities and the identity of the world around us as if they required a literate decipherment, as if everything in the universe were represented in a code that we are supposed to learn and understand. Human societies are based on this assumption: that we are, up to a point, capable of understanding the world in which we live.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: The Reader as Metaphor

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