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Henry is Currently Reading

Henry W is currently reading

Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach

by António Lobo Antunes

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Dec 15, 2025 11:35AM

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The Collected Poems of Marguerite Young

by Marguerite Young

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Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas

by Clarice Lispector

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Henry’s Quotes

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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“Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”
― Henry James, The Ambassadors

tags: inspirational, life

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“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

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“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

tags: colombia, español, first-lines, latin-america, spanish

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“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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