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"Just like Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías, I now realize I am really comfortable with this writing style of 'Its just one never ending sentence, steam of conscience style.' Very cool." — Nov 05, 2025 12:39PM
"Just like Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías, I now realize I am really comfortable with this writing style of 'Its just one never ending sentence, steam of conscience style.' Very cool." — Nov 05, 2025 12:39PM
“It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“For a bird, there are only two sorts of bird: their own sort, and those that are dangerous. No others exist. The rest are just harmless objects, like stones, or trees, or men when they are dead.”
― The Peregrine
― The Peregrine
“The dreams were eloquent, but they were also beautiful. That aspect seemed to escape Freud in his theory of dreams. Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about the things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Fear releases power. Man might be more tolerable, less fractious and smug, if he had more to fear. I do not mean fear of the intangible, the suffocation of the introvert, but physical fear, cold, sweating fear for one's life, fear of the unseen menacing beast, imminent, bristly, tusked and terrible, ravening for one's own hot saline blood.”
― The Peregrine
― The Peregrine
“The recovery of the outcasts demanded reduction of the privileges of the powerful, so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics, whatever their doctrine. And for their part, blinded by their exclusion, they were not really interested in any doctrine. This is the illusion of heresy. Everyone is heretical, everyone is orthodox. The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion... Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
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