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Trafalgar

by Angélica Gorodischer

bookshelves: 2026, audiobooks, fiction, short-stories, spanish-literature, currently-reading

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Água Viva

by Clarice Lispector

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A German Requiem (Bernie Gunther, #3)

by Philip Kerr

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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

tags: death, eternity

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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“Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: adversity, shakespeare

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