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“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“It is easy to identify with noble victims, but hard to think oneself into the mind of a child playing his trade on the black market or of a girl imagining herself ready to sacrafice her own and her brother's life on the 'alter of the father-land'. It is difficult to imagine what a fifteen-year-old boy thought as he guarded women waiting to be shot.”
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Thea’s 2025 Year in Books
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