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“Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”
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“I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are
still together.”
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still together.”
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“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”
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Deirdre’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Classics, Fiction, Horror, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Science, and Feminist
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