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“You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it on to her, to communicate again with her through the channel dug by others' words, which, as they are uttered by an alien voice, by the voice of that silent nobody made of ink and typographical spacing, can become yours and hers, a language, a code between the two of you, a means to exchange signals and recognize each other.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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Kastel’s 2025 Year in Books
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