Classical books and where to find them

I kind of made this just to post one quote but meh, why not post more

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Whee! By Zamyatin,

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What makes us most normal, is knowing that we're not normal.

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I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

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The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

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In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.

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I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have the time, I will come to understand you - better than anyone in the world.

Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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The greatest madness a man can commit in this life is to let himself die

Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes

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To go on living in the midst of feelings like this is intolerable. Isn't there someone who will be good enough to strangle me while i sleep?

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Cogwheels

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"Though I can believe in the devil" "Then why don't you believe in God? If you believe in the shadow, you cannot help believing in the light, can you?" "But there is darkness without light, isn't there?"

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Cogwheels

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Again I began to feel that absolutely everything was a lie: politics, business, art, science-all without exception were nothing else to me than enamel which concealed this frightful life.

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Cogwheels

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It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, The Life of a Stupid Man

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"Why do you attack the present social system?" "Because I see the evils that capitalism has engendered." "Evils? I thought you recognized no difference between good and evil. How do you make a living, then?"

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, The Life of a Stupid Man

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He knew well enough what was wrong with him: he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them - afraid of the society he so despised.

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, The Life of a Stupid Man

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He wanted to live life so intensely that he could die at any moment without regrets.

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, The Life of a Stupid Man

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Then the whole area was quiet. No - I could hear someone weeping. While I was untying myself, I listened to the sound, until I realized, I realized that I was the one crying.

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, The Life of a Stupid Man

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I kill with my sword, but people like you don’t use swords. You gentlemen kill with your power, with your money, and sometimes just with your words. True, no blood flows, the man is still alive, but you’ve killed him all the same. I don’t know whose sin is greater - yours or mine.

Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, The Life of a Stupid Man

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My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse: I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood. Only that seems large enough to hold all of my rage and grief. i want the world overturned like a bowl of eggs, smashed at my feet.

The Song Of Achilles, Madeline Miller