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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

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Something Happened

by Joseph Heller

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Good Morning, Midnight

by Jean Rhys

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"Good morning, midnight!
I’m coming home,
Day got tired of me -
How could I of him?

Sunshine was a sweet place,
I liked to stay -
But Morn didn’t want me - now -
So good night, Day!" — Jul 12, 2023 03:55AM

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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin

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very beautiful letters to the friend that have been published), except that the very notion of thus becoming a useful member of society would have repelled him. No doubt he agreed with Baudelaire, “Être un homme utile m’a paru toujours ...more

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Two on a Tower

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“Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.”
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“Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief”
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“Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.”
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