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Elena is Currently Reading

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Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung's Psychology

by June K. Singer

bookshelves: currently-reading, psychology, non-fiction

Reading for the 3rd time

read in October 1999

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My Struggle: Book Four

by Karl Ove Knausgård

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Cartas a mi madre

by Sylvia Plath

bookshelves: currently-reading, non-fiction, poetry, american-literature, memoir

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“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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“Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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“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.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: love

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