“Tatyana nodded at the six. ‘Young love.’ Her voice had a serrated edge. ‘Wouldn’t you change places with them, if you could?’ ‘Why on earth woud I want to do that?’ ‘They look so fine, and young, and wrapped up in each other. Love is so fresh and clean at that […]
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• Peculiar Quality, Page 439 •
“I have no resentment at all this, just a feeling that it’s all unreal and that the quality of the lake is smothered by the fact that it’s so pointed to. You point to something as having Quality and the Quality tends to go away. Quality is what you see […]
• Only the most naive questions are truly serious, Page 137 •
“These are questions that had been going through Thereza’s head since she was a child. Indeed, the only serious questions are the one that a child can formulate. Only the most naive questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answer. A question with no answer is a […]
• A Short Dictionary of Misunderstood Words, Page 93 •
“LIGHT AND DARKNESS Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina’s distance for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a […]