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375ed2e
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Books were safer than other people anyway.
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books
book-quotes
bookworms
love-for-books
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Neil Gaiman |
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6a0c138
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There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.
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books
book-lovers
boys
book-quotes
love-for-books
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Neil Gaiman |
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fcc9e61
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He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.
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reading
books
love-of-reading
love-of-books
reader
book-quotes
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Victor Hugo |
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3f58d47
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You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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d6138d1
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The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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94aa9ca
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Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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ee16586
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You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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9e8e2c9
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You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God.
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life-philosophy
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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0235963
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The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell exists?
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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68e3370
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You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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a8909b7
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When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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7aec95b
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The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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69cd6c9
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When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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c8be534
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What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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4e88e97
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And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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f4f1474
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And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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138f33c
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You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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e996dc3
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Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
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reading
flaubert-s-parrot
julian-barnes
book-quotes
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Julian Barnes |
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594b7fb
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Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untraceable substances. Love the great narcotic was the agent provocateur exposing all the secret selves to daylight.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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82a90a4
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Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins besides blood is the distillation of every act committed, the sediment of all the visions, wishes, dreams and experiences. All the past emotions converge to tint the skin and flavor the lips, to regulate the pulse and produce crystals in the eyes.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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b6e0003
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And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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7f5a3f8
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The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are rushing toward him, the magic power of meeting, exactly at midnight to achieve union, the illusion of one common rhythm achieved by overcoming obstacles, deserting friends, breaking other bonds - all this was soon dissolved by his laziness, by his habit of missing every moment, of never keeping his word, of living perversely in a state of chaos, of swimming more naturally in a sea of failed intentions, broken promises, and aborted wishes
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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a870820
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When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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79a2138
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The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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a275d9b
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His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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1b2f626
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In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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8cf34c9
|
So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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5590729
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"Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of impatience and say: "I don't understand"
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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cbfc116
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No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides children, so many invisible births, exchanges of soul and character, blossoming of unknown selves, liberation of hidden treasures, buried fantasies...
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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643892f
|
But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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0a8f727
|
The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at the present instant of encounter but a summation of his entire being which gives off this powerful drug capturing the fancy and attachment.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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26459a7
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I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender and lying, formal and incurable. He exhausts all the loves given to him. If I did not leave his house at night to warm myself in Rango's burning hands I would die at my task, arid and barren, sapless, while my father monologues about his past, and I yawn yawn yawn...
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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50a9483
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Her presence had awakened in him a man suddenly whipped by his earlier ideals, whose lost manhood wanted to assert itself in action.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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fde2602
|
No privacy left. No manners.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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5bafcd7
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Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and light, so elusive, and I never felt you encircling me and claiming possession. Rango is saying all the words I wanted to hear you say. You never came close to me, even while taking me. You took me as men take foreign women in distant countries whose language they cannot speak. You took me in silence and strangeness.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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0c91fe2
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Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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71db98c
|
Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain people and expands them beyond all laws; there is no time, no place for regrets, hesitations, cowardices. Love runs free and reckless, and all the gentle trickeries perpetrated to protect others from its burns-those who are not the lovers but who might be the victims of this love's expansion.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |
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0f78c80
|
No moment of charm without long roots in the past, no moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths, and efforts.
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books
book-quotes
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Anaïs Nin |