When we talk about reading, we often focus on the books themselves, but so much of the reading life is about the reader as an active participant.
“The moment you thought you had captured words in a volume, they became a wriggling mass impossible to catch hold of, slipping by you, changing their shape as if to laugh off the compilers’ exhaustion and passion, and issuing a challenge: “Try again! Catch us if you can!”
― The Great Passage
― The Great Passage
“However much food you ate, as long as you were alive, you would experience hunger again, and words, however you managed to capture them, would disperse again like phantoms into the void.”
― The Great Passage
― The Great Passage
“Now and then there comes
a time in our affairs when
courage is safer than
prudence.”
― A Little Book of Life
a time in our affairs when
courage is safer than
prudence.”
― A Little Book of Life
Vaishali’s 2024 Year in Books
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