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“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“To be immortal and then die”
― Breathless
― Breathless
“No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it”
― The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
― The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
“Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”
― The Art of Loving
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”
― The Art of Loving
“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
Matteo’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Matteo’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
102 books
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597 friends
144 books
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58 friends
1,814 books
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127 friends
221 books
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27 friends
4,213 books
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77 friends
389 books
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281 friends
357 books
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218 friends
551 books
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13 friends
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