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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”
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“Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun.”
― The Last Good Kiss
― The Last Good Kiss
“Initially taking up À la recherche du temps perdu on the basis of aesthetic inquiry, Czapski soon recognized its value as a practical template for survival. The lectures offered a viable counterpoint to the repeated interrogations the men were forced to endure. His lectures were an act of resistance, stimulating the recovery and retention of personal memories that could protect and defend his colleagues from the attempt to deprive each of them of a sense of self.”
― Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
― Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
Francesc’s 2024 Year in Books
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