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Carmen is Currently Reading

Carmen is currently reading

Salvage the Bones

by Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 09, 2026 11:17AM

Carmen is currently reading

La sociedad del cansancio

by Byung-Chul Han

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Feb 07, 2026 03:23AM

Carmen’s Quotes

“A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

tags: falling-in-love, old-age, young

12 likes

“There was absolute silence as though the arid stillness of planetary space were dropping slowly from the stars.”
― Henno Martin, The Sheltering Desert

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“We must make haste, then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

tags: death, inspirational

4 likes

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

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“Book-readers are just as willing as anyone else to start out with the weather, but as a general rule they can actually go on from there.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

tags: book-readers

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