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“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
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“Créeme, no hay gran dolor, grandes arrepentimientos, grandes recuerdos. Todo se olvida, incluso los grandes amores. Esto es lo que existe a la vez triste y exaltador en la vida. Hay solo cierta manera de ver las cosas, que surge de vez en cuando. Por esto es bueno a pesar de todo haber tenido un gran amor, una pasión desgraciada en su vida. Esto constituye por lo menos una coartada para las desesperaciones sin razón que nos agobian.”
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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― Books and You
― Books and You
“Y debo decir que confío plenamente en la casualidad de haberte conocido. Que nunca intentaré olvidarte, y que si lo hiciera, no lo conseguiría. Que me encanta mirarte y que te hago mío con solo verte de lejos. Que adoro tus lunares y tu pecho me parece el paraíso. Que no fuiste el amor de mi vida, ni de mis días, ni de mi momento. Pero que te quise, y que te quiero, aunque estemos destinados a no ser.”
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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José’s 2025 Year in Books
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