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Starless One
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"Most disappointing duel to the death since Crampas and Innstetten." — May 18, 2026 02:50AM
"Most disappointing duel to the death since Crampas and Innstetten." — May 18, 2026 02:50AM
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"I am now reading an abridged German edition, whilst constantly checking the original French text to see if the translator left out a paragraph, in which case I look it up in *another abridged translation*.
At this point, it would be quicker to just get fluent in French." — Mar 12, 2025 01:54PM
"I am now reading an abridged German edition, whilst constantly checking the original French text to see if the translator left out a paragraph, in which case I look it up in *another abridged translation*.
At this point, it would be quicker to just get fluent in French." — Mar 12, 2025 01:54PM
“Strange, though; because he is afraid of everything, nothing is harder than anything else. Taking a trip around the world is no more terrifying than buying a stick of gum. The daily dose of courage.”
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“He kisses--how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.”
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“It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
It is when we are wounded by our own hands that love should come to cure us.
Else what use is love at all?”
― An Ideal Husband
It is when we are wounded by our own hands that love should come to cure us.
Else what use is love at all?”
― An Ideal Husband
“So many people will do. But once you’ve actually been in love, you can’t live with “will do”; it’s worse than living with yourself.”
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“Boredom is the only real tragedy for a writer; everything else is material.”
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Starless One’s 2025 Year in Books
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