“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”
― Republic
― Republic
“Hasta a la extrañeza es posible acostumbrarse, creer que el misterio
se explica por sí mismo y que uno acaba por vivir dentro, aceptando lo inaceptable…”
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se explica por sí mismo y que uno acaba por vivir dentro, aceptando lo inaceptable…”
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“I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.”
― The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
― The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
“At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road.”
― A Thousand Acres
― A Thousand Acres
“I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.”
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Nicola’s 2024 Year in Books
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