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I am now convinced that in a work of art we do not try to conjure up beauty or truth. We only have recourse to them—as to a subterfuge—in order to be able to go on breathing.
—Robert Pinget
Sunday, November 17, 2013

The right-now fool (Kingsolver)

It was hard to feel the remotest sympathy for any of the different fools she had been. As opposed to the fool she was probably being now. People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.

Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

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