My Digital Commonplace Book

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"If you love me... you don't love me in a way I understand." - "Wishbone," Crush by Richard Siken, 2004

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'I'm not happy to leave, but you don't need to be happy to start over.' - The Plague by Albert Camus, 1947

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'This truth wasn't admirable, it simply mattered.' - The Plague by Albert Camus, 1947

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'...sure not all of them were geniuses... but they had been denied even the simple pleasure of being ordinary.' - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, 2019

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'Death in and of itself didn't terrify her. But dying in her sleep, without being aware of it, did. Dying without any preparation, dying without leaving behind a will.' - Blowfish by Jo Kyung Ran, 2010

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'What's the most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying...' - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

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'In precisely this way literature... by refusing to assign a 'secret,' an ultimate meaning, to the text... liberates what may be called an anti-theological activity, an activity that is truly revolutionary since to refuse to fix meaning is, in the end, to refuse G-d and his hypostates - reason, science, law.' - "Death of the Author," The Rustle of Language by Roland Barthes, 1967

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'He was determined to transform feelings of malaise into feelings of possibilities, because he honestly didn't know what else to do to combat his depression.' - Us Fools by Nora Lange, 2024

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'Is it a question of name? Could I be human if you called me one?' - The Employees by Olga Ravn, 2018

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'I too am marked by now obliterated words I should have said, whose meaning I no longer recognize.' - The Employees by Olga Ravn, 2018

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'Surely, given how important a thing it is to love someone, the one who is doing the falling in love should take it upon themselves to ensure that it is only done to people that desire it to be done to them? Regardless of whether they have acted in this way or that?' - Waterblack by Alex Pheby, 2024

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'Any volcano that has erupted since the Holocene, ancient history, is considered active. I haven't. Does that make me inert? or overdue?' - Martyr! by Kavek Akbar, 2024

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'You're luminous. I love you when you're like this. How all I could hear was the inverse.' - In Universes by Emet North, 2024

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'I loved Caleb like a part of my own body, not something I'd compose odes to, but difficult to imagine life without. I felt certain of two things: he wouldn't leave me... and he loved only certain parts of me.' - In Universes by Emet North, 2024

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'We were thankful for the dream of the trip, which no doubt exceeded any trip we could've taken.' - Temporary by Hilary Leichter, 2020

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'...when you see beauty in desolation, it changes something inside of you. Desolation tries to colonize you.' - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, 2014

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'...keep the odds of knowledge in my power without copartner? so to add what wants in female sex, the more draw his love, and render me more equal, and perhaps, a thing not undesirable, sometime superior; for inferior who is free?' - Paradise Lost by John Milton, 1667