Iván

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El cuarto de atrás

by Carmen Martín Gaite

bookshelves: currently-reading, literatura-española

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""Siempre hay un texto soñado, indeciso y fugaz, anterior al que de verdad se recita, barrido por él"." — Dec 15, 2025 01:31PM

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En una noche oscura: Poesía completa y selección de prosa (Spanish Edition)

by John of the Cross

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""Una palabra habló el Padre, que fue su Hijo, y esta habla siempre en eterno silencio, y en silencio ha de ser oída el alma"." — Dec 04, 2025 07:29AM

Nov 16, 2025 01:48PM

Iván’s Notes & Highlights

Los demonios by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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–¿Usted no reza? –Yo le rezo a todo. Vea esa araña que trepa por la pared; yo la miro y le doy las gracias por trepar.

Iván’s Quotes

“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

tags: deserve, nobody, nothing, owe, spring, virginia-woolf

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“The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see.”
― Louise Glück, Vita Nova: Winner of the Nobel Prize

tags: perception, poetry

118 likes

“I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.”
― Emily Dickinson

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“...the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound by much.”
― Herman Melville, White Jacket, or the World in a Man-Of-War: Volume Five, Scholarly Edition

tags: herman-melville, white-jacket

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“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

tags: inspirational, power-of-words, writing

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