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12:03 pm on November 12, 2014 | 0 | # |
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Two years of commuting & piles of Les Miserables volumes. End note https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/543223611

9:02 pm on October 9, 2014 | 0 | # |
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“Some of their finds were singular; among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from the Jardin des Plantes in 1800″

10:29 am on September 24, 2014 | 0 | # |
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Barricade in Paris’ arrondissements. Revolt! [in this chapter of Book 5th] #pic

6:38 pm on September 16, 2014 | 0 | # |
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“…it is an old law of envy & hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, great men are always more or less barked at.”

5:54 pm on September 16, 2014 | 0 | # |
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“The light of torches resembles the wisdom of cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles”

6:35 pm on April 10, 2014 | 0 | # |
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Savages of the civilization –can you imagine– demanded light with the mask of night

6:48 am on January 28, 2014 | 0 | # |
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Pamuk speaks of hüzün in equally romantic air of melancholy as Coelho’s zahir. Looking east on a ground of the west

10:06 pm on January 21, 2014 | 0 | # |
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“…it was the Parisian nose, that is to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,—which drives painters to despair, & charms poets”

8:50 pm on January 21, 2014 | 0 | # |
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“..it annoys him, a wealthy man can, without any particular trouble, do as well, if not better, than he who has devoted all his life to it”

8:40 pm on January 17, 2014 | 0 | # |
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“He was soon aware that there was springing up in his heart a desire for desires—ennui” [Alexey regained conciousness]