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“Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
“But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
Angie’s 2025 Year in Books
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