“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Candela’s 2025 Year in Books
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