Nathanael West citations

“Numbers constitute the only universal language.”

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Nathanael West

“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”

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Nathanael West livre Miss Lonelyhearts

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“Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.”

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Nathanael West livre The Day of the Locust

Source: The Day of the Locust

“At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.”

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Nathanael West

Source: Miss Lonelyhearts and A Cool Million

“He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.”

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Nathanael West livre Miss Lonelyhearts

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