May 2012
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“She could feel time eddying and curling almost visibly around her feet, rising...”
– -Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
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“…because everyone who has no conscience purpose in life instinctively yearns for...”
– -Shchedrin, The Golovlyov Family
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“…I perplex others, not because I am clear, but because I am utterly perplexed...”
– -Plato, Meno
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“Birds hold fast to a branch even when they sleep. People should hold fast to...”
– -Viktor Shklovsky, Third Factory
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“The longing for Paradise is man’s longing not to be man.”
– -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a...”
– -Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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“There was no one to whom she wanted to talk but she had to have a telephone.”
– -Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
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“The nakedness of the night is appalling.”
– -Vladimir Nabokov, “Lance” via Nabokov’s Dozen
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“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.”
– -Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Flaubert’s really good at that Monday morning humor.
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“All the stray bits and pieces of the past, all that is feckless and gray about...”
– -Walker Percy, The Moviegoer 