"We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and are enamored."
Austin O’Malley
#Austin O'Malley
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#Narcissus
"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale."
Gabriel García Márquez
#Gabriel García Márquez
#Lit
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#Fiction
"Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer."
Mark Z. Danielewski
#Mark Z. Danielewski
#Lit
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#Passion
"How inappropriate to call this planet ‘Earth’, when it is clearly ‘Ocean’."
Arthur C. Clarke
"I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way."
Simone de Beauvoir
#Simone de Beauvoir
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"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."
Richard P. Feynman
#Richard P. Feynman
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#Learning
#education
