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“How astonishingly intimate the business of fiction is, more intimate than anything that issues from the psychiatrist’s couch or even the loversâ€� bed. You see the soul, pinned and wriggling on the wall.”
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“Why is it that even when we are enjoying music, for example, or a fine evening or conversation with people we like, why does it all seem to be a hint of some limitless happiness existing somewhere else rather than a real happiness, the kind, that is, we possess ourselves?”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
“Les gens de qualité savent tout, sans avoir jamais rien appris.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.”
― Les Précieuses Ridicules
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.”
― Les Précieuses Ridicules
“If I feel by intuition that he doesn't love me anymore, I will immediately fly away like a stricken bird”
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“In this country, it is not the highest virtue, nor the heroic act, that achieves fame, but the uncommon nature of the least significant destiny. There is plenty for everyone, then, since the more conformist the system as a whole becomes, the more millions of individuals there are who are set apart by some tiny peculiarity. The slightest vibration in a statistical model, the tiniest whim of a computer are enough to bathe some piece of abnormal behaviour, however banal, in a fleeting glow of fame.”
― America
― America
KT’s 2024 Year in Books
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200 friends
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156 books
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960 books
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1,207 books
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197 books
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