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“He was no different from the newspaper readers he so despised and derided who, because it was less painful than learning the harsh lesson of all they had endured, longed to return to those ideal tomes before the war.”

“Wow Pj is actually reading a book” “sometimes I forget they work in a bookstore, they barely ever read” “I thought Pj didn’t know how to read”

Listen, I’m just as surprised as you are. I actually feel more compelled to read now that I have even less free time than a few months ago

“Dancing called for the sort of qualities I totally lacked: gaiety, innocence, nonchalance, verve. Ah well, wasn’t that what I’d known all along?”

“But by pointing to such truths as the fact that we are all bound to die before long and therefore nothing matters a jot, you simply reduce the whole of life to something shallow and idiotic. So, what are we supposed to do? Just jettison everything, give up all our thought, humanity? And allow ambition and money to go on ruling us and wait over a glass of beer for the next mobilization to take place?”