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“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
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“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
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“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”
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“Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
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Latin American Literature and Magical Realism
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Latin American literature rose to particular prominence during the second half of the 20th century, largely thanks to the international success of the ...more
Jesse’s 2025 Year in Books
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