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Het diner

by Herman Koch

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Sep 19, 2024 07:06AM

“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: death, love

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“Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax]

I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs.”
― Anne Lister

tags: glbt, love

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“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: disappointment, dorian-gray, marriage, men, relationships, women

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“I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”
― James Baldwin , Giovanni’s Room

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“Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

tags: empathy, vegetarianism

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