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“We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“-Πώς πήγε το σχολείο;
-Πολύ καλά. Έμαθα να μιλώ, να απαντώ, και να σκέπτομαι με συλλαβές.
-Τότε γιατί κλαις;
-Είναι οι συλλαβές. Πονάω, όταν κόβω τις λέξεις στη μέση.
-Θα συνηθίσεις, μου λέει η Φανή. Θα συνηθίσεις.
ΤΕΛΟΣ”
― Kassandra and the Wolf
-Πολύ καλά. Έμαθα να μιλώ, να απαντώ, και να σκέπτομαι με συλλαβές.
-Τότε γιατί κλαις;
-Είναι οι συλλαβές. Πονάω, όταν κόβω τις λέξεις στη μέση.
-Θα συνηθίσεις, μου λέει η Φανή. Θα συνηθίσεις.
ΤΕΛΟΣ”
― Kassandra and the Wolf
“I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don't know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don't treat it and never have, though I respect medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, let's say sufficiently so to respect medicine. (I am educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, I refuse to treat it out of spite. You probably will not understand that. Well, but I understand it. Of course I can't explain to you just whom I am annoying in this case by my spite. I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "get even" with the doctors by not consulting them. I know better than anyone that I thereby injure only myself and no one else. But still, if I don't treat it, its is out of spite. My liver is bad, well then-- let it get even worse!”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Gaston’s 2025 Year in Books
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