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Théo d'Or is 69% done with A Gentleman in Moscow
Ah, Sofia - about playing Rachmaninov, at Palais Garnier ....Is she ready ? The Count would say - readiness is not a matter of certainty. It is a matter of courage.. But what if she falters ? Then, the Count would say " then falter with grace. " A gentleman will always have the right answer..
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A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is on page 269 of 495 of A Gentleman in Moscow
Chapter 22.

In which Sofia reminds Count Rostov that children don't need much to be happy. Just a song, a story. ... Somewhere along the way , he forgot that. Or he didn't forget, just got busy surviving. So sad...we all try to survive, waking up to alarms, not sunrises. We scroll before we breathe... Living is different. Children know this instinctively. They don't need a reason to be happy. Let's be kids
Jan 03, 2026 01:23AM 22 comments
A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 62% done with A Gentleman in Moscow
I still wonder how anyone could rate this book negatively. Then again , it's certainly easier to play with the " like " button, than to try to delve into something your level doesn't allow you to grasp.. In a world where scrolling has replaced thinking, maybe is no surprise that reflection isn't actually just out of fashion, but it's simply beyond the cognitive resource of the average scroll-conditioned mind.
Dec 29, 2025 11:56PM 19 comments
A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 54% done with A Gentleman in Moscow
" By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration ".

So true. Just experienced that.
Dec 24, 2025 01:20AM 10 comments
A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 42% done with A Gentleman in Moscow
" There is a difference between being resigned to a situation, and reconciled to it. "

Indeed. Resignation is the truth you hate. Reconciliation is the lie you frame. Resignation is the moment you see the world clearly. Reconciliation is the moment you decide clarity is too expensive.
Dec 18, 2025 10:17PM 13 comments
A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 38% done with A Gentleman in Moscow
In a world imagined by Amor Towles, serial-likers would likely be sent to the Metropol not for dissent, but for excessive digital enthusiasm - condemned to press the like button on blank pages, under the watchful eye of a Bolshevik refined in his own way, with literary taste and a deep aversion to emojis. And all of it, of course, set to the wistful soundtrack of As Like Goes Bye.
Dec 12, 2025 06:01AM 23 comments
A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 29% done with A Gentleman in Moscow
The Count : " Are you quite certain you're not a Bolshevik ? "

Nina : " I'm nine ".

Innocence is the last place where the world is still whole.
Dec 10, 2025 06:02AM 7 comments
A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 26% done with A Gentleman in Moscow
Can a man honor a vanished world without becoming a stranger to the one that remains ?
Dec 08, 2025 10:53AM 7 comments
A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 12% done with A Gentleman in Moscow
" To what end had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day, and insignificance the next ? "

There's quite a stoicism in this reflection, which also touches on theodicy - ( ugh.... involuntary connection.. ) - the question of divine intention. If the Divine created such beauty, why burden in it the seeds of existential turmoil ?
Dec 01, 2025 10:23PM 30 comments
A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 9% done with A Gentleman in Moscow
" If a man does not master his circumstances, then he is bound to be mastered by them. "

Count Rostov and Kafka's Mr. K - two men seized by fate - one tames it, the other - lost in it.
Nov 28, 2025 09:46PM 5 comments
A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 5% done with A Gentleman in Moscow
I heard some readers found this book boring. I imagine they also find mirrors intimidating... Towles write like someone who's read a book before. No wonder it's confusing for some.
Nov 25, 2025 03:16AM 15 comments
A Gentleman in Moscow

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 59% done with Lettres à Milena (French Edition)
" L'amour, c'est que tu sois pour moi le couteau avec lequel je fouille en moi ".

As Marguerite Duras said, " you have to be stronger than your pain, or it will destroy you ".

The knife isn't literal, and neither is the love. A love that doesn't protect - it pierces. A scalpel in the hands of someone who knows exactly where to cut.
Aug 27, 2025 09:53PM 2 comments
Lettres à Milena (French Edition)

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 4% done with Lettres à Milena (French Edition)
Je pensais entrer dans le monde de Kafka, mais pourtant, c'est le mien que je découvre.. Déjà j'sais plus où commence sa voix et où finit la mienne. Peut-être que lire Kafka, ce n'est pas le comprendre, mais m'écouter moi-même ...
Aug 18, 2025 09:11AM 3 comments
Lettres à Milena (French Edition)

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is on page 35 of 64 of Sur la lecture
Mon cher Marcel, si les dimanches de mon enfance avaient aussi sacrés que tes heures de lecture, j'aurais prié moins à l'église et plus dans les marges des livres.

Ton disciple en devenir, déjà noyé dans les premières pages,

Théo d'Madeleine
Aug 11, 2025 10:24PM 2 comments
Sur la lecture

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 24% done with Mon bel oranger
" Pourquoi le petit Jésus ne m'aimait- il pas ? Il aimait même le bœuf et l'âne de la crèche. Mais moi, non...Il se vengeait parce que j'étais le filleul du diable. Il se vengeait de moi et empêchait mon frère d'avoir un cadeau. Mais Luis ne méritait pas ça, lui, parce que c'était un ange. Les anges du ciel ne pouvaient pas être plus gentils que lui....."
Jun 14, 2025 05:01AM 16 comments
Mon bel oranger

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 4% done with Mon bel oranger
" ....et quand je serai grand, je veux être un savant et un poète, et porter un nœud papillon.

- Pourquoi un nœud papillon ?

- Parce qu'on n'est pas poète sans nœud papillon. "
Jun 11, 2025 02:32AM 23 comments
Mon bel oranger

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 52% done with Les Choses
" Ils ne connaîtraient pas la rancœur, ni l'amertume, ni l'envie. "

Ils ignoraient totalement GR, ça c'est sûr et certain .
May 19, 2025 09:17PM 22 comments
Les Choses

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 21% done with Les Choses
" Ils auraient aimé être riches. Ils croyaient qu'ils auraient su l'être. Ils auraient su s'habiller, regarder, sourire comme des gens riches. Ils auraient eu le tact, la discrétion nécessaires. Ils auraient oublié leurs richesses, auraient su ne pas l'étaler. Ils ne s'en seraient pas glorifiés. Ils l'auraient respirée. "

Être riche ou devenir riche - that is the question.
May 16, 2025 08:50PM 2 comments
Les Choses

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 20% done with En avant la zizique... et par ici les gros sous
Just because a music publisher has ears, they assume they can judge the work of a songwriter's brain - but first they should prove they have a brain themselves.
À mon avis, Hannibal Lecter could lend a helping hand here.
May 11, 2025 06:27AM 13 comments
En avant la zizique... et par ici les gros sous

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 7% done with The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche
Pourquoi ai-je l'impression que mon chat me juge à chaque fois que je repose mon livre, comme si je l'avais déçu ?
May 05, 2025 07:34AM 6 comments
The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is on page 58 of 300 of Black Sun
" I dreamt that à little girl came out of my body, the spitting image of my mother, while I have often told you that when I close my eyes I can't bring her face to mind, as if she had died before I was born, and carried me along into that death..And now here I am giving birth and it is she who lives again ..."

I asked Me , " What the dream is ? "
And Me said " A question ".
May 01, 2025 06:05AM 16 comments
Black Sun

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 4% done with The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche
" What would the rainbow be were it not limned against the lowering cloud ? "

Would the light be as radiant if not veiled by shadow ?
Apr 29, 2025 10:14PM 2 comments
The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is 10% done with Black Sun
Duras - " la femme-tristesse ".
A more than conclusive labeling.

" Toi qui n'est pas parfaite,
Qui est la fleur du mal,
La plus belle, peut-être,
Tu es la femme idéale "
Apr 29, 2025 09:17PM 2 comments
Black Sun

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is on page 4 of 300 of Black Sun
" The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist ".

Some doubts, so far.
Apr 29, 2025 06:08AM 2 comments
Black Sun

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is finished with Sans famille
Malot semble suggerer que la famille n'est pas une question de sang, mais de loyauté et d'amour. Rémi montre que les familles se forment et se transforment en fonction des circonstances et des cœurs qui s'unissent. Pourquoi cela me semble-t-il si familier ?
Mar 18, 2025 04:34AM 12 comments
Sans famille

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is finished with Sans famille
" Il ne nous manquait qu'un morceau de pain pour souper ; mais il fallait tâcher de ne pas penser à cela....d'ailleurs, le proverbe n'a-t-il pas dit : " Qui dort dîne " ?

Triste proverbe:)
Mar 13, 2025 08:28AM 2 comments
Sans famille

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is finished with Sans famille
" Et voilà comment ils deviennent des géants avec des bottes de sept lieues pour les enfants peureux. "


"Les Poètes de Sept Ans " de Rimbaud et " les géants avec des bottes de sept lieues "de Malot - ne sont rien d'autre que des frères jumeaux, mais des frères jumeaux nés à des époques différentes. Oui, c'est possible.
Tout est possible.
Mar 11, 2025 11:07PM 1 comment
Sans famille

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is finished with Sans famille
" Voilà comment, de français que j'étais le matin, je devins italien avant le soir ".

Moi j'aimerais bien devenir millionaire avant le soir.
Mar 08, 2025 01:58PM 2 comments
Sans famille

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is finished with Sans famille
" [...] Mais il y a des moments où le cœur voit mieux et plus loin que les yeux les plus perçants .."

Si vrai. Car lorsque les yeux sont trompés par les apparences, le cœur reste fidèle à ce qui est vrai et authentique. Le cœur sait reconnaître la vérité.
Mar 07, 2025 01:23AM 3 comments
Sans famille

Théo d'Or
Théo d'Or is finished with Sans famille
" Ah ! comme Paris t'a changé !
Tu n'aurais pas parlé comme ça avant d'aller á Paris ! "
Mar 06, 2025 09:29AM 3 comments
Sans famille

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