February 2012
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Flaubert on encountering strangers
“I’m obsessed with inventing stories for people I come across. An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask what their lives might be like. I want to know what they do, where they’re from, their names, what they’re thinking about at that moment, what they regret, what they hope for, whom they’ve loved, what they dream of… and if they happen to be women then the urge...
“Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.”
– William S Burroughs
