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“Creativity requires a state of grace. So many things are required for it to succeed.”
― The Door
― The Door
“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
Raphaëlle’s 2024 Year in Books
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