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“If our splintered attention has led us to oblivion and blindness; and the shell has replaced the substance, it may be enlightening to deep-dive into the roots of our negative qualities and find a surprising guideline for the creation of new horizons. ("Not without my shadow")”

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“Local fog in Venice has a name: nebbia. It obliterates all reflections ... and everything that has a shape: buildings, people, colonnades, bridges, statues. Boat services are canceled, airplanes neither arrive, nor take off for weeks, stores are closed and mail ceases to litter one’s threshold. The effect is as though some raw hand had turned all those enfilades inside out and wrapped the lining around the city... the fog is thick, blinding, and immobile... this is a time for reading, for burning electricity all day long, for going easy on self-deprecating thoughts of coffee, for listening to the BBC World Service, for going to bed early. In short, a time for self-oblivion, induced by a city that has ceased to be seen. Unwittingly, you take your cue from it, especially if, like it, you’ve got company. Having failed to be born here, you at least can take some pride in sharing its invisibility...”

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Book:Watermark

Source: Watermark

“He hated himself," Gwen said. "You just got caught in the cross fire.”

Hatred Oblivion Self Hatred Nevermore Kelly Creagh

Book:Oblivion

Source: Oblivion

“To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace?”

Oblivion Posterity Authorship

Book:The Rings of Saturn

Source: The Rings of Saturn

“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore increases their sense of cleverness and security. For birds and animals, as for poor men, winter is another matter. Rabbits, like most wild animals, suffer hardship.”

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Book:Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“I love you." Isobel said. Because even if the words could not stop what was coming, they were still her first and sole defense. "I know," Varen surprised her by saying as he turned away. "That's why you're gone.”

Love Death Oblivion Nevermore Kelly Creagh

Book:Oblivion

Source: Oblivion

“Not anymore, though," he said. "And I guess that's the one perk of loving a dead girl. She never changes.”

Love Death Change Oblivion Nevermore Kelly Creagh

Book:Oblivion

Source: Oblivion

“He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.”

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Book:Encounter

Source: Encounter

“You loved her," Isobel said. "Worshipped," Scrimshaw corrected. "But more ludicrous than that, let us not forget, she loved me." He gave a short ironic laugh. "Not just him-the poet. But me as well. I, the epitome of our own penchant for self-destruction. Do you know how difficult...how impossible such a feat must have been?”

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Book:Oblivion

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“...panic is a synonym for being; in its delays, in its swerving and rushing syntax, its frantic lists and questions, it fends off time and loss. Its opposite is oblivion: not the tranquil oblivion of sleep but the threatening oblivions of sex and death.”

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Author:Louise Glück

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

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Book:People of the Whale

Source: People of the Whale