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"10 años después de la primera vez que bajé al infierno, vuelvo a adentrarme en el lugar sin esperanza. mejor que la primera. pero sigo sin terminar de conectar con Dante." — Jul 20, 2025 07:30AM
"10 años después de la primera vez que bajé al infierno, vuelvo a adentrarme en el lugar sin esperanza. mejor que la primera. pero sigo sin terminar de conectar con Dante." — Jul 20, 2025 07:30AM
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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