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Ritual in the Dark
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Gustave Flaubert
“My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world.”
Gustave Flaubert

James Joyce
“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Italo Calvino
“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Anthony Burgess
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”
Anthony Burgess

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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