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«Самое древнее и самое сильное чувство, ощущаемое человеческим существом, — страх. А самая могучая форма страха — это страх перед неведомым».

Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт

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Хотелось бы все изменить,

Но время уже не вернешь.

Ты продолжаешь гнить,

Делая вид, что живешь.

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ВОТ ВАМ МАЛЕНЬКИЙ ФАКТ

Когда-нибудь вы умрете.

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Кровью невинных несытая, шайка убийц нечестивых

Долго лелеяла здесь злое безумье свое.

Ныне разрушен застенок, родина ныне свободна;

В логово лютых смертей жизнь и спасенье пришли

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Если во всем облом, сдавайся и иди в библиотеку

Стивен Кинг

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Тому, кто совершенен, место в музее.

Эрих Мария Ремарк

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The Coffee <3

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You prance through the swinging doors, activating the cheerful jingle of welcoming bells. The familiar old lady behind the counter smiles her warm smile; you’ve seen it countless times before.

“Bienvenuto di nuovo, mio meraviglioso!” she chimes. “You are looking lovelier than ever, darling!”

You’ve lost five pounds this week, and counting. You know you’re looking lovelier than ever, you don’t need anyone to tell you. You’ve persevered these last few days and have had the control. You may not be at your ultimate goal weight quite yet, but the action of being as strong as you’ve been recently is almost enough to feel just as euphoric.

“Hullo, good morning!” you greet the lady kindly, strutting over with confidence. Your little legs feel so great, it’s hard to even walk without feeling amazing. You’ve accomplished so much in so little time, you’re sure that everyone you know is astonished, just as well. You pop yourself up and onto one of the chic stools. You can’t help but smile, knowing that you’re just as chic. You look breathtaking.

“The usual, honey?” the sweet manager calls to you from over her shoulder.

You nod politely. “Of course! Thank you!”

She sets a warm vintage mug of black coffee down in front of you. It’s cute and relatively small, but compared to your dainty, elegant tiny fingers it looks huge and plentiful.

As you reach into your bag to pay, she stops you. “No, no, that isn’t necessary, darling. It’s on the house! This order is as simple as they come!” You insist, but it’s no use. This woman is passionate, and for that, you love her to death.

As you sip your coffee in generous gulps, you remember how you used to be unable to stand the bitter taste. Now it tastes like power and heaven, and nothing could make you more satisfied and proud.

And then, you do something. Something you hadn’t done in a long time, something you forgot you were even capable of doing. The moment you lick your lips from the fantastic taste of rich perfection and energy, you do it.

You smile.

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When a theory suddenly comes to your head:

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Me: i love books! I love them so much! I am such a bookworm!

Friend: cool! How many did you read this year?

Me: OK, so here’s the thing

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our cinemagraphs on instagram: @kitchenghosts

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Books mentioned in An Unnecessary Woman

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman, a novel about a book-obsessed 72-year-old woman who only leaves her book-laden apartment when she has to. What are some of your favorites here? 1. Austerlitz (2001) by W G Sebald 2. The Emigrants (1992) by W G Sebald 3. 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño 4. The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño 5. A Heart So White (1992) by Javier Marias 6. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (1994) by Javier Marias 7. Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy (2002-2007) by Javier Marias 8. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens 9. Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino 10. Cinnamon Shops (1934) by Bruno Schulz 11. The Conformist (1951) by Alberto Moravia 12. Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov 13. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid 14. The Shipping News (1993) by Annie Proulx 15. The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann 16. 100 Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 17. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984) by Jose Saramago 18. Murphy (1938) by Samuel Beckett 19. Waiting for Godot (1952) by Samuel Beckett 20. Death of a Travelling Salesman (1936) by Eudora Welty 21. Giovanni’s Room (1956) by James Baldwin 22. Corydon (1924) by Andre Gide 23. Sepharad (2001) by Antonio Muñoz Molina 24. Sophie’s Choice (1979) by William Styron 25. Nightwood (1936) by Djuna Barnes 26. The Leopard (1957) by Guiseppe Lampedusa 27. Kaddish for an Unborn Child (1990) by Imre Kertész 28. Fatelessness (1975) by Imre Kertész 29. Crime & Punishment ((1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 30. The Brothers Karamozov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 31. Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert 32. The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf 33. Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf 34. Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy 35. The Book of Disquiet (1888-1935) by Fernando Pessoa 36. The Fall (1956) by Albert Camus 37. The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) by John Fowles 38. Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka   [my review] 39. The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje 40. Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce 41. Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow 42. Hills like White Elephants (1927) by Ernest Hemingway 43. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 44. The Encyclopaedia of the Dead (1983) by Danilo Kiš 45. Ransom (2009) by David Malouf 46. The Colour Purple (1982) by Alice Walker 47. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (1947) by TadeuszBorowski 48. Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll 49. The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) by Samuel Johnson 50. Flight Without End (1927) by Joseph Roth 51. Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun 52. A Book of Memories (1986) by Péter Nádas 53. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark 54. A House for Mr Biswas (1961) by V S Naipaul 55. Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie 56. Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by J M Coetzee

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″He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.“

- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Librairie du pont neuf, Toulouse

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