“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.
I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
― The English Patient
I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
― The English Patient
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
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“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
― Medea
― Medea
“Sublime, close at hand but mysterious
With the living silence of the rose.”
― The Invention of Morel
With the living silence of the rose.”
― The Invention of Morel
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