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Michele is currently reading

Year of the Monkey

by Patti Smith (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: autobiography-memoir, nonfiction, music, poetry, travel, currently-reading

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Feb 29, 2020 07:47PM

“For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: dna, noise, self, soul

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”
― David Bowie

tags: david-bowie

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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

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