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“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery in bearing, enduring, interpreting, exploiting unhappiness, and whatever in the way of depth, mystery, mask, spirit, cleverness, greatness the heart has been granted - has it not been granted them through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
Christine’s 2025 Year in Books
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