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“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― The Lover
― The Lover
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
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“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Every movement reveals us.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”
― The Unnamable
― The Unnamable
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Basem’s 2025 Year in Books
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