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“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
― Vladimir Nabokov
“Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.”
― F.R. Leavis
― F.R. Leavis
“What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" -- that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic
― Louis Adamic
“There are no themes so human as those that reflect the closeness of bliss to bale.”
― Henry James
― Henry James
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