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“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial (…) one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker. Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact.”

+ “All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point - a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved.”

“I should never be able to come to a conclusion. I should never be able to fulfil what is, I understand, the first duty of a lecturer - to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.” +

“And besides, is death really so terrible a thing? It seems terrible to you, because you are young, but who is to say he is not better off now than you are? (…) It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing, he said. You are like children. Afraid of the dark.”

“feeling her sweet wish to rescue me from myself (and, oh, my dear, I thought, if you knew what a job you'd be taking on, if you only knew!).”

a 148 páginas do final …. acho que não consigo acabar este fim de semana 😔

já não falta assim tanto!!!!

“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really ever grasp at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory, that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”

este livro está a ser uma seca….

como é que ninguém fala sobre o quão homofóbico problemático este livro é ????

página 244/629 - ainda não estou colada à história…

como assim o henry tem um diário em latim? 🥹

o henry deixa-me tão curiosa

“Sometimes, when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over.”

eu começo a simpatizar por uma personagem e no segundo a seguir está a ser a pessoa mais arrogante e presunçosa do mundo…

“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”

“Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them, don't you think?”