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First time I’ve tried dog-earing pages… not sure how I feel about it

Oh man this is a good one

The web of life is strung with so many strands of interest that not infrequently one and the same circumstance may spin the first filament of a new and as yet unrealised happiness along side the reinforcing thread of a present sorrow.

He never once spoke to Odette of the blunder he had made that night; and it was never in his mind. But occasionally, with a careless step of thought, he would trip over the unseen memory of it, which would push it farther into him and cause him a deep stab of pain.

“Nothing would have given M. Vinteuil more pleasure, but he was so intensely polite and scrupulously considerate that he always tried to see things from other people's points of view, and was afraid of being a bore or seeming selfish if he followed his own desires or merely let slip a hint of them.”

"Being thus deprived of the anaesthetic of habit, I would begin to have thoughts and feelings, and they are always fraught with unhappiness."

Holy stream of consciousness

“I’m beginning to fear that this confusion is going to last for a very long time” - Jesus

“For he had in his bosom a spike named Bitterness which could not by words be done away”

Wow this is really good

Chapter 30 was one of the funnier chapters of a book I’ve read. Very good so far

I’m sprinting through it. So so good

The first part could not be more relevant today