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Sara Berger rated a book 4 of 5 stars Hermetic Definition by H.D.	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sara Berger rated a book 4 of 5 stars You are Happy by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sara Berger rated a book 3 of 5 stars Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sara Berger rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
this book is so fat with love.
Feb 20, 2013 07:08pm · see review
Sara Berger rated a book 4 of 5 stars Styles of Radical Will (Penguin Modern Classics) by Susan Sontag	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jan 30, 2013 06:27am
Sara Berger rated a book 3 of 5 stars Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I appreciate the honesty of this memoir, despite its small scale it began with a good balance of both the admirable and the harsh in Sontag. It contains many enlightening insights about the highs and lows of being brilliant. That is until the second...more
Jan 24, 2013 11:34am · see review
Sara Berger is now a fan of Italo Calvino
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Sara Berger rated a book 3 of 5 stars The Stonemason by Billy Childish	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

tags: art, art-objects

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“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: age

256 people liked it

“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller

tags: inspiration

339 people liked it

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

tags: food, love

985 people liked it

“When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.”
― Marguerite Duras

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