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“„Din două una, daţi-mi voie: ori să se revizuiască, primesc! Dar să nu se schimbe nimica; ori să nu se revizuiască, primesc! dar atunci să se schimbe pe ici pe colo, şi anume în punctele… esenţiale”
― O scrisoare pierdută
― O scrisoare pierdută
“The rubber tip had worn away from around the right heel, and although she had coloured the shoe in with an old black bingo marker, the sharp metal nail scraped the floor with the screech of hard times.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
“What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“She had loved him, and he had needed to break her completely to leave her for good. Agnes Bain was too rare a thing to let someone else love. It wouldn't do to leave pieces of her for another man to collect and repair later.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
“Why is it that with nobody to watch over them, men can’t stop themselves from falling into disrepair? And that disrepair is then looked upon kindly and excused by the world, seen not as a failure of personal responsibility but something poignant and tragic.”
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
― Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
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From the sublime to the abstruse, from the bestsellers to the rightly unknown. To read the winners of the Nobel Prize in literature is a roller coaste ...more
Korkodus’s 2025 Year in Books
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