February 2012
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I loved you; even now I may confess,
Some embers of my love their fire retain;...
– I loved you - Pushkin
January 2012
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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
– Marcel Proust
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And it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit inaccessible to children whom...
– David Foster Wallace
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may perhaps be the very best thing...
– From The world as will and representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
December 2011
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...
– Franz Kafka
November 2011
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You cannot always tell what keeps you confined, what immures you, what seems to...
– Vincent van Gogh
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But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte...
– François Truffaut
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