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"This book needs to get better. I can't have spent 27 francs and lugged it all the way from Switzerland for nothing." — Mar 10, 2025 12:13PM
"This book needs to get better. I can't have spent 27 francs and lugged it all the way from Switzerland for nothing." — Mar 10, 2025 12:13PM
“What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. As well”
― The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
― The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
“It’s a particular kind of pleasure, of intimacy, loving a book with someone.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“He was the great love of her life you know.'
'Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly, 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.”
― The Pursuit of Love
'Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly, 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.”
― The Pursuit of Love
“I’m beginning to recognise that real happiness isn’t something large and looming on the horizon ahead, but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.”
― Buried Light
― Buried Light
“I am nothing but a dilettante,
a dilettante in painting, in poetry, in music, and several other of the
so-called unprofitable arts.
Above all else I am a dilettante in life
Up to the present I have lived as I have painted and written poetry.
I never
got far beyond the preparation, the plan, the first act, the first stanza.
There are people like that who begin everything, and never finish anything.
I am
such a one.”
― Venus in Furs
a dilettante in painting, in poetry, in music, and several other of the
so-called unprofitable arts.
Above all else I am a dilettante in life
Up to the present I have lived as I have painted and written poetry.
I never
got far beyond the preparation, the plan, the first act, the first stanza.
There are people like that who begin everything, and never finish anything.
I am
such a one.”
― Venus in Furs
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