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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

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It is very imprudent, it is tragic—but, ah, it is so beautiful! Bit by bit these poor people have given up everything else; but to this they cling with all the power of their souls—they cannot give up the veselija!

Ironically, the ones who have nothing are always the one with something to give. In the end money and material possession means nothing. Toiling day and night for pennies, these people can still find it in their hearts to give something for this newly wed couple, and they have faith that if the roles were reversed, they would be taken care of by their community as well. What do we have to keep us alive in the midst of cruelty if not love, culture, and community?

Mai’s Quotes

“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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“Two words from him, and I had seen my pouting apathy change into I’ll play anything for you till you ask me to stop, till it’s time for lunch, till the skin on my fingers wears off layer after layer, because I like doing things for you, will do anything for you, just say the word, I liked you from day one, and even when you'll return ice for my renewed offers of friendship, I'll never forget that this conversation occurred between us and that there are easy ways to bring back summer in a snowstorm.

What I forgot to earmark in that promise was that ice and apathy have ways of instantly repealing all truces and resolutions signed in sunnier moments.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, devotion, love, metaphor, oliver-and-elio, romance

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