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Itzel Amieva
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“That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.”
― The Ravishing of Lol Stein
― The Ravishing of Lol Stein
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“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 answer that I try to write true stories but that at a given point the story becomes unbearable because of it’s very truth, and then I have to change it. I tell her that I try to tell my story but all of a sudden I can’t-I don’t have the courage, it hurts too much. And so I embellish everything and describe things not as they happened but the way I wished they happened.
She says, “Yes, there are lives sadder than the saddest of books.” I say, “Yes. No book, no matter how sad, can be as sad as a life.”
― The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
She says, “Yes, there are lives sadder than the saddest of books.” I say, “Yes. No book, no matter how sad, can be as sad as a life.”
― The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
“I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it: we must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and soul. It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! Away with lamentation! Away with elegies and dirges! Away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! Let the dead eat the dead. Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance!”
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Itzel’s 2025 Year in Books
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74 books
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25 friends
458 books
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75 friends
2,228 books
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50 friends
1,268 books
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1,207 books
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387 books
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172 friends
94 books
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163 books
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