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“He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.”
― How to Be Good
― How to Be Good
“My poetry is, or should be, useful to me for one reason: it is the record of my individual struggle from darkness towards some measure of light”
― Holy Barbarians
― Holy Barbarians
“All the misfits of the world--the too fat and too lean, the too tall and the too short, the jerk, the drip, the half-wit and the spastic, the harelip and the gimp. All the broken, the doomed, the drunk and the disillusioned--herding together for a little human warmth, where a one-room kitchenette is an apartment and the naked electric bulb hangs suspended from the ceiling like an exposed nerve”
― The Holy Barbarians
― The Holy Barbarians
“What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?”
― Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
― Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
“Viewed from the standpoint of the Enlightenment, the Veda is as dark as night, dense, with no apparent inclination toward clarity. It is a world that is self-sufficient, highly tensioned, even convulsive, wrapped up in itself, with no curiosity about any other manner of existence. Streaked by all kinds of violent desires, it has no thirst for objects, vassals, pomp. If we are looking for an emblem of something utterly alien to modernity (however it might be defined), something that might look upon it with complete indifference, we find it in the Vedic people.”
― L'ardore
― L'ardore
Darina’s 2025 Year in Books
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