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“Out of infinite desires rise finite deeds like weak fountains that fall back in early trembling arcs. But those, which otherwise in us keep hidden, our happy strengths — they come forth in these dancing tears. (Aus unendlichen Sehnsüchten steigen endliche Taten wie schwache Fontänen, die sich zeitig und zitternd neigen. Aber, die sich uns sonst verschweigen, unsere fröhlichen kräfte — zeigen sich in diesen tanzenden Tränen.)”

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Book:The Book of Images
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“An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even play the piano. She muddled Armenians and Turks; loved success; hated discomfort; must be liked; talked oceans of nonsense: and to this day, ask her what the Equator was, and she did not know. All the same, that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park; meet Hugh Whitbread; then suddenly in came Peter; then these roses; it was enough. After that, how unbelievable death was!-that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all; how, every instant . . .”

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Book:Mrs. Dalloway
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“The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role. One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is, if not to have read the same books, to have read at least some books in common with the other person—which means, moreover, to have non-read the same books. From the beginning of the relationship, then, it is crucial to show that we can match the expectations of our beloved by making him or her sense the proximity of our inner libraries.”

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Book:How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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“...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed interiority of a speaker, that the interior is indeed political - and that every poem, every time, in some miraculous way, must be an argument about the making of poetry itself.”

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Book:All the Flowers Kneeling
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“La capacidad de interioridad del adulto en desarrollo se ve amenazada por la tentación de despilfarrar implacablemente esa misma capacidad y deleitarse en la vacuidad. El síndrome afecta especialmente a los que viven detrás de una máscara. Una Elefanta disfrazada de princesa humana, un Espantapájaros con las facciones pintadas, o una tiara resplandeciente bajo la cual brillar y moverse con anónimo glamour. El sombrero de una bruja, el espectacular despliegue de un mago, la estola de un clérigo, la toga de un académico o el uniforme de gala de un soldado. Un centenar de maneras de eludir una pregunta: ¿Cómo voy a vivir conmigo mismo ahora que sé lo que sé?”

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Book:Son of a Witch
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“If we proceed like the child does with the puppy, if we examine what is hidden in things and persons, in everything that is stimulating in this colorful world, then we will uncover nothing more than that kind of atomized sawdust with which 'science' for a long time has been feeding those hungry for knowledge. Everything real looked at in the light disappoints. The forms lose their shine, color, and aroma, like a fruit that someone has grasped too strongly.”

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Book:Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
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