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“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”
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“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
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“For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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Michele’s 2025 Year in Books
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