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Beauty in the apertures of pain

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I want to say Without temper If possible without the least sense of the heroic Without even the measured ambition to speak the truth which is only another vulgarity To say I am not what I was Indeed I was nothing and now I am at least the possibility of something and this I will defend.
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'new' used book finds [one a first edition!] + eco-friendly spiralbound, courtesy the local library & mermaid lit trove

¢10-25 each, hells yeah

#this is what i spent some of my hard earned money/hock profits on the other day#because of course#books#more books#theodore roethke#w. somerset maugham#joan didion#isak dinesen#albert camus#fyodor dostoyevsky#marguerite duras#my books#bibliophile#the year of magical thinking#l'amante anglaise#the brothers karamazov#exile and the kingdom#lit#poems#seven gothic tales#of human bondage#mine
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art . . . what we are talking about -- and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
      - William James

Found in a recently purchased second-hand copy of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, this quote: written in cursive on notepaper, [I believe] mistakenly attributed to psychologist William James when it should actually be Henry James, his brother and lit critic. Anyway. Interesting little vestige of former book-parentage...

#virginia woolf#night and day#lit#books#bookshelfies#handwriting#quotes#william james#henry james#cursive#second-hand books#experience#mine#notes#shelfies#also you can spy vita#and sylv and anaïs#my books
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