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“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― The Man in the Mist
― The Man in the Mist
“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
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“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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Ariane’s 2024 Year in Books
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