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"Been back in a few times and it just seems so depressing. I will try each month I never give up on a book," — Jul 17, 2026 11:31AM
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"Might be one for winter. I'm still in, but the heaviness of the book itself demands me to sit for long periods which I haven't done this year, too much light. A Scottish winter is coming though, so I can see it getting air time then." — Jul 17, 2026 11:32AM
"Might be one for winter. I'm still in, but the heaviness of the book itself demands me to sit for long periods which I haven't done this year, too much light. A Scottish winter is coming though, so I can see it getting air time then." — Jul 17, 2026 11:32AM
“For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…”
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― 2666
“Así que todo nos traiciona, incluida la curiosidad y la honestidad y lo que bien amamos. Sí, dijo la voz, pero consuélate, en el fondo es divertido.”
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“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
― How to Love
― How to Love
“No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.”
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“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.”
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