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Re-reading this classic after thirty years--this time in Richard Howard's 1999 translation--I am struck by Stendhal's dogged refusal to indulge in the purple prose and turgid melodrama that even the best of his contemporaries indulged in, replacing t
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“Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.”
― Gargoyles
― Gargoyles
“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
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Thomas’s 2025 Year in Books
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