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“But after all it's better to ask for the earth than to take it.”
― An Inspector Calls
― An Inspector Calls
“There were no new ways to understand the world, only new days to set our understanding against.”
― Actual Air
― Actual Air
“When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming”
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“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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“I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
Jake’s 2025 Year in Books
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