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I'm reading Mary Robison's 2001 novel Why Did I Ever.
What I'm thinking is, that this may be the very best way to write a novel, after everything else has been done.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Everything which is inspired, heroic or saintly is derived from contemplation.
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One--the smallest of numbers... That is the infinite. A number which increases thinks that it is getting nearer to infinity. It is getting further away from it. You have to stoop to rise.
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