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For none among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
d’une lumineuse pénombre
Joseph Kessel • Tous n'étaient pas des anges (Le Goût des idées t. 28) (French Edition)
He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy.
Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
The guests were milling around in the lobby like first-class passengers on a liner that has struck an iceberg, and that they suspect may founder at any moment.
Pat Frank • Alas, Babylon: A Novel (Harper Perennial Olive Edition)
It kills me sometimes, how people die.
Markus Zusak • The Book Thief
We are all mankind a story, collectively and individually, and Kugel didn’t want his individual story to end in an ellipsis. A period, sure, if you’re lucky. An exclamation mark, okay. A question mark, probably; that seemed the punctuation all stories, collectively and individually, should end with after
Shalom Auslander • Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel
He felt himself drawn once more into the human circle and hoped for great and remarkable results from both the doctor and the locksmith, without really distinguishing precisely between them.
Franz Kafka • The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories (The Schocken Kafka Library)
You become responsible forever for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose…”