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The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow
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“...sometimes I do actually forget that the person to whom I owe that love is a real person, complete in himself, not someone who should make do with some rather diffuse emotion which gradually resigns itself to its own fatal vagueness, as if that were a fate against which there were no possible appeal...”
― José Saramago
― José Saramago
“Out of Ireland have we come.
Great hatred, little room,
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mother's womb
A fanatic heart.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems
Great hatred, little room,
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mother's womb
A fanatic heart.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems
“They are surprisingly tall--eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are all there from the word go, but even strangers' children look like proper people by the aged of eight...”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering
― Anne Enright, The Gathering
“The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled and Hard Luck
― Banana Yoshimoto, Hardboiled and Hard Luck
“What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!”
― Samuel Beckett
― Samuel Beckett
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