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“I think about it quite a bit, actually, that look on his face. I think about a lot of things. I think about the first time I ever saw a birch tree; about the last time I saw Julian; about the first sentence that I ever learned in Greak. χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά... Beauty is harsh...”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not...”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“You can never hurt me,
And you will never cause me pain
Cause you're made of fire,
And I'm the heavy rain.”
― Burning Innocence
And you will never cause me pain
Cause you're made of fire,
And I'm the heavy rain.”
― Burning Innocence
“But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do”
― Big Sur
― Big Sur
“I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find the answer as to why we were ever alive. [...] Do you realize that! We'll never know why the hell any of it happened, not even when it's over! We're going to die and not even know. We'll never know, and all this meaningless will just go on and on and on. And we won't any longer be witnesses to it. We won't have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We'll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
Books & Parks, the accidental book club in Milan
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The idea. 1. We do not necessary read one book all together. Everyone can read whatever one personally likes (I set some limits for genres though, se ...more
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