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“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
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“I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.”
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“I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.”
― Malone Dies
― Malone Dies
“She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time.”
― Murphy
― Murphy
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
Gabriela’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gabriela’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Science, and Travel
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