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Regarding the Pain of Others

by Susan Sontag

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Dec 30, 2023 03:06PM

“We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am

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“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

tags: inspirational, readers, readers-and-writers, reading, reading-books, reasons-for-reading

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“Leer es cubrirse la cara, pensé.
Leer es cubrirse la cara. Y escribir es mostrarla”
― Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home

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“Sabía poco, pero al menos sabía eso: que nadie habla por los demás. Que aunque queramos contar historias ajenas terminamos siempre contando la historia propia”
― Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home

tags: familia, historia

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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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