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“Here is what you do. You ease yourself into a tub of water, you ease yourself down. You lie back and wait for the ripples to smooth away. Then you take a deep breath, and slide your head under, and listen for the playfulness of your heart.”
― Reasons to Live
― Reasons to Live
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”
― The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade
― The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade
“I feel that one day an authentic new truth will emerge from all this, a truth warm and intimate, capable of summarizing me clearly, like a name, and striking an entirely new, unique note in me, and it will be the meaning of my life...”
― Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată
― Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată
“I kept nothing of myself but the ashes.”
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Reading Yiddish literature in English translation.
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