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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

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“Travelers are an enthusiastic lot. They do not mind any inconvenience as long as they have something to see.”
― R.K. Narayan, The Guide

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“Everything that’s forbidden lives a hundred times over; thus, if something is supposed to be dead, its life is all the livelier.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

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“I am dying of the incomprehension of those who could have seen me and held me, dying of the emptiness of cautious and clever people, and of the lovelessness of hesitancy and not-much-liking.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

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“Shouldn't we fear life? Who steers a safe boat? Around us sorrow swells like a heaving ocean; we can see how the hungry waves lick the ship's sides, how they climb to board her. No safe anchorage, no solid ground, no steady ship, as far as the eye can see; only an unknown sky over an ocean full of trouble!”
― Selma Lagerlöf

tags: life, life-quotes, safety

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“Aurobindo Ghose writes somewhere of the present as 'the pure and virgin moment,' that razor's edge of time and existence which divides the past from the future, and is, and yet, instantaneously is not. The phrase is attractive and yet what does it mean? The virgin moment emerging from the veil of the future in all its naked purity, coming into contact with us, and immediately becoming the soiled and stale past. Is it we that soil it and violate it? Or is the moment not so virgin after all, for it is bound up with all the harlotry of the past?”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography

tags: philosophy-of-life

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