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não sei se sou inteligente por entender isso aqui ou se na verdade só as pessoas são meio burras por não entenderem mas até o momento não to vendo nada demais nele, o inicio de babel me cativou mais

muitas coisas a dizer já, mas irei guardar tudo pro review, certeza que irei demorar um século pra terminar, mas quero demorar mesmo, quero apreciar essa leitura ao máximo.

a escrita do Vuong é TÃO LINDA, só estoy acostumado com a poesia dele mas só pelas primeiras páginas desse já sei que a prosa também é linda

"Yet when the guest
Has stepped into the windy street, and gone,
Who can confront
The instantaneous grief of being alone?"

“IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages.”

“People can only get to know each other up to a point and then they make up the rest, until one day, seeing their mistake, they turn their backs on sadness and run away.”

“Ever since boyhood, I’d feared wasting any happiness that came my way; I’d always wanted to save some of it for later.”


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“We’ve been friends for a long time now, and you’ve never told me a single thing about yourself … Do you really find it strange that I might wish to know more? Do you still feel the need to hide so much from me? To me, you are the most precious person in the world … But even so, you want to see me the same way you see everyone else – as a nobody – and abandon me?”

AMAMOS UM MALE YEARNING

* “When we walked side by side, did I not feel his humanity most profoundly? Only now did I begin to understand why it was not always through words that people sought each other out and came to understand each other, and why some poets went to such lengths to seek out companions who could, like them, contemplate the beauties of nature in silence.” *

quanto mais leio, mais percebo o quão certa estava a menina do vídeo do tiktok que vi que dizia que o Richard é para o core 5 o que a Judy Poovey é para o Richard, ela foi genial nessa comparação