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kate’s Quotes

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

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“For fourteen days, I was unspeakably happy. Unspeakably but not absolutely because, for me, joy never comes without the grief of knowing it is only ephemeral. All happiness carries with it the seed of its own end.”
― Gabrielle Wittkop, The Necrophiliac

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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: darkness

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“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

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“I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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Existentialism — 924 members — last activity Jan 03, 2021 11:51AM
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own li ...more

Secret History — 46 members — last activity May 02, 2012 02:06AM
Secret Histories, crypto-thrillers and occult fantasies. These are books that purport to tell us the secret history of the world through a fantastic l ...more

Soundtracks for Books & Characters — 37 members — last activity Sep 18, 2018 06:40PM
This is a place to talk about how listening to music relates to books and characters we read about. Do you have a particular album or song associated ...more

Transgressive Fiction — 1355 members — last activity Feb 26, 2026 12:59PM
wikipedia: "Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and w ...more