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Chloe Aridjis
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born
New York, NY, The United States
gender
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Book of Clouds
   3.59 avg rating — 213 ratings
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published
2009
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10 editions
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Topografia de Lo Insolito: La Magia y Lo Fantastico Literario en la Francia del Siglo XIX
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published
2004
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“After five years I still had the impulse, every ten to twelve months, to find a new home. Spaces became too familiar, too elastic, too accommodating. Boredom and exasperation would set in. And though of course nothing really changed from one roof to another, I liked to harbor the illusion that small variations occurred within, that with each move something was being renewed.”
― Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
― Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
“I had no problem spending Monday through Friday alone, Saturdays were neutral, but each Sunday had to be reckoned with. There's solitude and then there's loneliness. Monday through Saturday were marked by solitude but on Sundays that solitude hardened into something else. I didn't necessarily want to spend my Sundays with someone, but on those days I was simply reminded, in the nagging pitch that only Sundays can have, that I was alone.”
― Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
― Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
“I should have moved to the forest long ago, I would think to myself, perhaps to the Black Forest although the place probably wasn't half as sequestered as I imagined, though no doubt there would be far fewer faces and voices, only the imperceptible cries of ants, the footsteps of spiders and the sound of trees growing. But the madness that remote places cultivate is not to be taken lightly and I've always found something particularly disquieting in madness left to quietly ferment on its own; the social functions required of us help us maintain, at the very last, an illusion of normality, and for that reason alone I had, until that point in my life, remained in the city.”
― Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
― Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds
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