“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
Gary Paulsen (1939) American writer and musher
“I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”
— Jean Paul Sartre, book Nausea
Source: Nausea
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Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
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