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“We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
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Matilde’s 2025 Year in Books
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