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Memorias de Adriano

by Marguerite Yourcenar

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War and War

by László Krasznahorkai

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Feb 07, 2026 12:41PM

He felt something that could have been love but was too manageable and kind of coldly interesting. It was more like he understood how love might feel. The sensation itself wasn't anywhere as disorienting as love was rumored to be. Actually ...more

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“DeShawn told his mother, should anything happen, he wanted to be cremated. “Where do you want your ashes thrown?” asked his mother. “IN THE EYES OF MY ENEMIES!”
― Brontez Purnell, Since I Laid My Burden Down

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“Shame puts a pressure on poetic diction. Yet shame likes nothing more than to thrust shame aside. Shame is shameless. Shame has fun selling itself as an artistic persona.”
― Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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“What I like about you, baby, is you're rock bottom.”
― Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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“Crees que tu dolor y tu angustia no tienen precedentes en la historia del mundo, pero luego lees. Fueron los libros los que me enseñaron que las cosas que más me atormentaban eran las mismas que me conectaban con todas las personas que estaban vivas, que habían estado vivas.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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