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The Disappearers

by Marlon James

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by Shane Maloney

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Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home by Susan Hill

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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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“No one comes back from the dead, no one has entered the world without crying; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, nor when he wishes to leave.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

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“Russia is lost" she continued. "First we had God. Then we had Lenin. Now we have nothing.”
― Guillermo Erades, Back to Moscow

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“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

tags: childhood

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“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.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka

tags: books

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“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.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

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