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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner: A Novel
― Stoner: A Novel
“The vision soothed him, calmed his fears and his doubts, made him fatalistic towards the inscrutable purpose of the universe. It all seemed to matter so little - the pathetic quest for love, or the return to solitude.”
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“Along the banks of the Seine the couples strolled as always on summer nights, hand in hand, slowly as if drinking wine in the dusk and love and youth that will never, however hard they try, be quite the same again.”
― The Day of the Jackal
― The Day of the Jackal
“True love makes it through any ordeal. I yearn to be in a relationship that can shake off the frosty wind and the couple still stands hand in hand. I yearn for a love that, because of devoted vigilance, can withstand time’s ceaseless erosion and come out alive.”
― [Last Words from Montmartre (New York Review Books Classics)] [By: Miaojin, Qiu] [June, 2014]
― [Last Words from Montmartre (New York Review Books Classics)] [By: Miaojin, Qiu] [June, 2014]
“The other afternoon, when you fell asleep on my shoulder, I drifted off, too. But before I did, it occurred to me looking around at all of your things and your work and going through years of work in my mind, that of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
L’s 2024 Year in Books
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