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Annie
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it’s from three o’clock onward that night rises from its own abyss, dripping with dreams.
“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever,”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
Annie’s 2025 Year in Books
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