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“But the real crisis of our times, of my generation, is not that we don’t have it good, or even that we might be worse off later on. No, the real crisis is that we can’t come up with anything better.”
― Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
― Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
“You are a pastel-colored Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bordeaux wine stain that won’t come out”
― Men Without Women: Stories
― Men Without Women: Stories
“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Whether this period was a cold winter that left valuable growth rings inside me, I can’t really say.”
― Men Without Women
― Men Without Women
“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
Miguel’s 2025 Year in Books
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