“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“The dog did a somersault like a tossed pancake”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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“For you, in my respect, are all the world.
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me?”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me?”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― The Uses of Literature
― The Uses of Literature
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