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“home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.”
― The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
― The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
“Mas parece que o que nos impulsiona de uma hora para outra a uma fuga é um dia frio e cinzento, que aumenta nossa solidão, que nos faz sentir com mais força que algo vai explodir.”
― Dora Bruder
― Dora Bruder
“Há uma hora da tarde em que a planície está a ponto de dizer alguma coisa; nunca o diz ou talvez o diga infinitamente e não entendemos, ou entendemos mas é intraduzível como uma música...”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“My desire to write is connected with my homosexuality. I need the identity as a weapon, to match the weapon that society has against me. It doesn’t justify my homosexuality. But it would give me — I feel — a license.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?”
― Encounter
― Encounter
breno’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at breno’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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654 books
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297 books
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308 books
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138 books
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230 books
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219 books
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