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[art_is_a_lie]

So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have

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[god_hates_creed]

wow, i posted the same quote on january 24th, and i read that book right after coming back from a trip to DC that was filled with love, but afterwards i felt more drained and battered down than i could have imagined.

have you read extremely loud and incredibly close? i liked it also, but not as well as everything is illuminated. his wife, nicole krauss, is a writer too, and i read her book the history of love this past summer. a lot of the same general mood going on in all of those books, so maybe you'd like them as well.

take care, avalon.