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Monthly Archives: July 2012
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.
~ H. L. Mencken
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
~ Umberto Eco
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Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Lyric Fragment
Been away so long I hardly knew the place.
Gee it’s good to be back home.
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case.
Honey disconnect the phone.
Back in the U.S.S.R by The Beatles
Lyrics by John Lennon / Paul McCartney
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