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“Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”
― On Love
― On Love
“To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.”
― Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
― Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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