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Sylvia Darling
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“In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future."
-- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors”
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-- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors”
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“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.”
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
― Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
“Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”
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“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
Sylvia’s 2025 Year in Books
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Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Science, Technology, Information, Ethics, Neuroscience, Anthropology, Race, Libraries, Library Science, Legal History, Preservation of Information, Archives, Civics, Morality, Squids, Architecture, and Design
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