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“I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts brings with it its consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it:”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
“In an existence like mine forecasts could not be made: I never know what could happen to me in the next half hour, I can't imagine a life all made up of minimal alternatives, carefully circumscribed, on which bets can be made: either this or that.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune. In”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
“Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded, a period that lasted no more than a hundred years.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
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145 books
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