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“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a pair of clean hands is seldom among them.”
― Imperium : L'ascension au pouvoir
― Imperium : L'ascension au pouvoir
“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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“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]
“One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste.”
― Dune
― Dune
“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
L’s 2025 Year in Books
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