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“Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)”
― Letters to Milena
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)”
― Letters to Milena
“sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.”
― Letters to Milena
the most guilty.”
― Letters to Milena
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.”
― What Is Art?
― What Is Art?
“The reason to read Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to become more cultivated or more articulate... The best reason to read them is to see if they may know you better than you know yourself. You may find your own suppressed and rejected thoughts flowing back to you with an "alienated majesty”
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Lindsey’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lindsey’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Young-adult
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