Patrick Cabeza
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“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”
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“Raising her eyebrows at the discrepancy – that was what she was thinking, this was what she was doing – ladling out soup – she felt, more and more strongly, outside that eddy; or as if a shade had fallen, and, robbed of colour, she saw things truly. The room (she looked round it) was very shabby. There was no beauty anywhere.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers?”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“The tragic asymmetry of contemporary American life is this: the Right often punches above its weight in politics but yearns for cultural power. The Left owns the culture but constantly pines for political power.”
― Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
― Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
“To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
Patrick’s 2025 Year in Books
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