“Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“the artist can create outside himself the perfect replica of his own intentions. The rest of us just create a mess, or something hopelessly wooden, no matter how brilliantly we imagined it. That’s”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“If you have always been criticised, from before you can remember, it becomes more or less impossible to locate yourself in the time or space before the criticism was made: to believe, in other words, that you yourself exist.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
Rūta’s 2024 Year in Books
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