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“Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.”
― The Elementary Particles
― The Elementary Particles
“Y todas las teorías de la libertad, desde Gide a Sartre, no son sino inmoralidades concebidas por solteros irresponsables.”
― La carte et le territoire
― La carte et le territoire
“All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.”
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“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
― M Is for Magic
― M Is for Magic
“No subject is more touched on than love, in the human life stories as well as in the literary corpus they have left us... No subject, either, is as discussed, as controversial, especially during the final period of human history, when the cyclothymic fluctuations concerning the belief in love became constant and dizzying. In conclusion, no subject seems to have preoccupied man as much; even money, even the satisfaction derived from combat and glory, loses by comparison, its dramatic power in human life stories. Love seems to have been, for humans of the final period, the acme and the impossible, the regret and the grace, the focal point upon which all suffering and joy could be concentrated.”
― The Possibility of an Island
― The Possibility of an Island
Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
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