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Absurdity Everywhere
Prose, Books, Quotes“You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, don’t you think?”- James Joyce
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“In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.”
— Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
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“I prefer to be taken seriously for what I’m not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.” Fernando Pessoa
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“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
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“Abundance” by Amy Schmidt, published in Rattle
January 20, 2019
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Travel and tell no one. Live a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.
Khalil Gibran
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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
[originally published 1929]
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Yusef Komunyakaa, from "Jasmine", Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems [ID in ALT]
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“Someday, somewhere — anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
— Pablo Neruda
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“…At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined…”
— Pablo Neruda, “Rain (Rapa Nui)”
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