

“...the sense of my utter loneliness had been agony...”
― The First Men in the Moon
― The First Men in the Moon
“It does not feel reductive to read fiction through this prism, nor will you find the numbing sameness Nunez’s narrator deplores — in fact, these books deliver us from numbing sameness. They are remarkably various, and they trouble debates that traffic in certainties. They come laden with confusion, doubt, subtlety — is it excessively earnest to call it truth?”
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“I feel to think, he thinks to feel. It is I and my kind that have the wider range, because we can be impersonal as well as personal. We can escape ourselves.”
― A Modern Utopia
― A Modern Utopia

“At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world around me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.”
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“[N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others,”
― The Shape of Things to Come
― The Shape of Things to Come
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