The Human Condition

Daria Petrilli

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I think we forget how amazing it is to write a book. A whole book. You created a whole world and characters from nothing but ether, caffeine, spite, and a sprinkling of carpal tunnel, and that deserves to be celebrated.

~ Meredith Ireland

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I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing.

~ Shirley Jackson

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…You don’t have to read a book because it’s old, because it’s modern, because it’s famous, we have to read it when we really care…

~ Jorge Luis Borges

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When you love, you stop being just a human and become a fragrance. You don’t walk the earth, you float above it. This state of being in love is the essence of life. And it doesn’t matter what you are in love with — whether it’s a woman, work, the world, or life itself.

~ Tonino Guerra, Italian poet

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