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Bente is Currently Reading

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De schaduw van de wind (Het Kerkhof der Vergeten Boeken, #1)

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Dec 29, 2025 01:41PM

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Septology

by Jon Fosse

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De gave van de dood

by Jacques Derrida

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"Eindelijk Derrida lezen!!! (SO naar Thomas voor het lenen; sorry dat ik het nu pas ga lezen haha)

Volgens mij ga ik een beetje spijt krijgen dat ik dit niet heb gelezen voor mijn master thesis maar aan de andere kant heb ik genoeg andere dingen gelezen en heb ik lang genoeg gedaan over mijn thesis.
He, shit, misschien MOET ik dan wel een PhD schrijven puur om deze fout te rectificeren..." — Jun 17, 2025 06:44AM

Jun 17, 2025 06:39AM

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Bente’s Quotes

“You have to be so genuinely uncategorizable that the normal terms of identity don't even apply to you ... Like Judy here: we never see him with anyone, we don't know what race he is, we don't know anything about him. Post-sexual, post-racial, post-identity, post-past ... The Post-man. Jude the Postman.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
― Oscar WIlde

tags: lectura

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“The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

tags: conversation, misunderstanding

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“I propose a new calendar: not one autumn but twelve, a hundred. The autumn when the birches are yellow but still have their leaves; when the beeches are green but the birch leaves have fallen; when the oaks tint to the color of ripe apricots and the beeches yellow; when the oaks turn a cigar brown and the beeches curl up into crispy copper rolls. And so on: I’ve missed a few. But to call it all just “autumn”!”
― Daniel Mason, North Woods

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“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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