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Clare is Currently Reading

Clare is currently reading

When in French: Love in a Second Language

by Lauren Collins

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Jun 15, 2017 01:54PM

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The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)

by Elena Ferrante

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Oct 12, 2016 06:32AM

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Les Fleurs du Mal

by Charles Baudelaire

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“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

tags: beauty, ceremony, infinity, ritual, tea

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“My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.”
― China Miéville, Un Lun Dun

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“I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness, dead people need us to rememer them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say “I am sorry”, until its as meaningless as air.”
― Audrey Niffenegger

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“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

tags: books, language, literature, reading, words

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