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“This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins.”
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the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins.”
―
“The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.”
― 2666
― 2666
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
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I study your obscure language.”
―
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”
― Phaedrus
― Phaedrus
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Aparna’s 2025 Year in Books
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