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Fragments of a Mortal Mind: A Nonfiction Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-reflection)
avg rating 4.81 — 16 ratings — published
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-reflection)
avg rating 4.10 — 572,744 ratings — published 1984
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-reflection)
avg rating 3.97 — 293,611 ratings — published 1991
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as philosophical-reflection)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,547,470 ratings — published 1942
“Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.”
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“You carry the true him in your heart, or the him as he could have been, and there is no shame in that. Allow yourself to feel what your heart wishes to feel. Do not deny your pain.”
― The Faraway Inn
― The Faraway Inn