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His family would haunt him for life: and nothing in his writing gives the impression he was surprised that it should be so. We are haunted animals: ghosts, Donne’s work and life suggest, should be treated as the norm.
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― The Woman in the Dunes
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― The Book of Disquiet
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“I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.”
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“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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