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So just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.
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“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”
― Childhood
― Childhood
“Left to itself every literature will exhaust its vitality, if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign one. What naturalist does not take pleasure in the wonderful things that he sees produced by reflection in a mirror? Now what a mirror in the field of ideas and morals means, everyone has experienced in himself, and once his attention is aroused, he will understand how much of his education he owes to it.”
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“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“The most important thing is spiritual labor...Books...You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can't live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.”
― Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
― Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
“I think I have the courage to doubt everything; I think I have the courage to fight everything. But I do not have the courage to know anything, nor to possess, to own anything. Most people complain that the world is so prosaic, that life isn't like a romantic novel where opportunities are always so favourable. What I complain of is that life is not like a novel where there are hard-hearted fathers, and goblins and trolls to fight with, enchanted princesses to free. What are all such enemies taken together compared to the pallid, bloodless, glutinous nocturnal shapes with which I fight and to which I myself give life and being.”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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