“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”
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“Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”
― Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
― Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
“Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more, because there were not yet words for it, and because it was not yet fixed to comparisons or chronologies or the ways by which adults measure such things...I just loved her. Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones -- that kind of love.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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