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What makes La Force du Vivant truly extraordinary is Micheli’s ability to balance intellectual depth with emotional warmth. She explores complex themes—such as survival, growth, and transformation—with clarity and sensitivity, making the book accessible yet thought-provoking.

This is a work that lingers long after reading, inspiring reflection on our own connection to life’s unyielding force.

"In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line"

"She reminded him that the weak would never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom, and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide the security they need in order to face life".

"Tránsito Ariza was a freed quadroon whose instinct for happiness had been frustrated by poverty"

The book is slow. Like really slow but as you progress through it, you start savoring it. I wouldn't call it a page turner but my mind constantly lingers on the book while I set it aside. I'm enjoying it.

And so the very life of the colonial city, which the young Juvenal Urbino tended to idealize in his Parisian melancholy, was an illusion of memory.

Life would have been quite another matter for them both if they had learned in time that it was easier to avoid great matrimonial catastrophes than trivial everyday miseries.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good

And so the very life of the colonial city, which the young Juvenal Urbino tended to idealize in his Parisian melancholy, was an illusion of memory.

Dr. Urbino was reluctant to confess his hatred of animals, which he disguised with all kinds of scientific inventions and philosophical pretexts that convinced many, but not his wife. He said that people who lo

Very interesting insight into Mao's view of socialism.
This is a quote (24% into the passage) that I thought is very instructive as to his thoughts:

"The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, criticism, persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression"