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Jennifer S. Cheng, So We Must Meet Apart; “August 24, 2018”
An annotated book carries the presence of others. They bring your attention to specific things, to their views, to what they managed to feel from it. I can think of few intimacies like that, sharing what encountered others, what was felt.
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Paul Eluard, “Gabriel Péri”, Selected Poems (trans. Gilbert Bowen)
[Text ID: “There are words that help us to live And they are plain words The word warmth the word trust Love justice and the word freedom The word child and the word kindness.”]
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“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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Yehuda Amichai, from The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai; “And as far as Abu Ghosh,”
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Herman Hesse, Demian (tr. Damion Searls)