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Real life, life at last laid bare and illuminated—the only life in consequence which can be said to be really lived—is literature.

-Marcel Proust,  In Search of Lost Time

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May·14

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I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by… I don’t care if it’s a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place, I like to know I’m leaving it.

-J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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May·07

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It’s best not to flaunt the fact that the Devil is paying all your bills.

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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Apr·30

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“Whut you gwine do ef hit rain?”
“Git wet, I reckon,” Frony said. “I aint never stopped no rain yit.”

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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Apr·23

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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

-J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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Apr·16

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Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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Apr·09

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But his flawed heart—
Alack, too weak the conflict to support—
’Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief
Burst smilingly.

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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Apr·02

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“Well, never mind what done it,” said the mole, forgetting his grammar in his pain. “It hurts just the same, whatever done it.”

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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Mar·26

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I will accept either an apology or a bullet, as you prefer.

-William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

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Mar·12

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I suppose they are homesick. I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.

-Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

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Mar·05

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