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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
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“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”
― Baudolino
― Baudolino
“For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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Michele’s 2025 Year in Books
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