Sign in with Facebook
“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness , dear, my happiness will remain,in the moist reflection of a street lamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal's black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness.”
― Selected Letters, 1940-1977
― Selected Letters, 1940-1977
“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
―
―
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
―
―
“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“At first you maybe start to like some person on the basis of, you know, features of the person. The way they look, or the way they act, or if they're smart, or some combination or something. So in the beginning it's I guess what you call features of the person that make you feel certain ways about the person. ... But then if you get to where you, you know, love a person, everything sort of reverses. It's not that you love the person because of certain things about the person anymore; it's that you love the things about the person because you love the person. It kind of radiates out, instead of in. At least that's the way ... That's the way it seems to me.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
Fredrik’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Fredrik’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,203 books
|
190 friends
1,653 books
|
117 friends
815 books
|
549 friends
979 books
|
64 friends
333 books
|
247 friends
566 books
|
86 friends
749 books
|
368 friends
1,841 books
|
482 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Fredrik
Lists liked by Fredrik
