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"some good ole (or actually new, in the grander scheme of things) fantasy is just what i need right now" Jan 17, 2023 01:03AM

 
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"it's getting really interesting now! i like the idea of the magic system a lot. i like where the characters are going. only thing i'm not entirely sold on yet is the writing style. for a book so focused on linguistics and the way language shapes reality, some phrases and the style in general feels a bit too modern? i'll talk about it more in the review" Sep 24, 2022 09:09AM

 
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Italo Calvino
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

Virginia Woolf
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Rainer Maria Rilke
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
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“The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”
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