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“There are few who are worthy to understand what I feel. [...] I seek out those who are of this chosen few, and I avoid the rest.”
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Reading Progress
March 21, 2015
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Started Reading
March 21, 2015
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March 22, 2015
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17.89%
""In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can rest assured. So it is with Time in one's life.""
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March 25, 2015
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""Since I was able to enjoy everything that this sonata had to give me only in a succession of hearings, I never possessed it in its entirety: it was like life itself. But, less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us the best of themselves.""
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March 28, 2015
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36.58%
""But happiness can never be achieved. If we succeed in overcoming the force of circumstances, nature at once shifts the battle-ground, placing it within ourselves, and effects a gradual change in our hearts until they desire something other than what they are about to possess.""
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March 31, 2015
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57.41%
""It seemed to me that I had succeeded in touching her person with invisible lips and that I had pleased her. And this forcible appropiation of her mind, this immaterial possession, had robbed her of mystery as much as physical possession would have done.""
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April 2, 2015
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Finished Reading
April 4, 2015
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82.38%
""Pleasure in this respect is like photography. What we take, in the presence of the beloved object, is merely a negative, which we develop later, when we are back at home, and have once again found at our disposal that inner dark-room the entrance to which is barred to us so long as we are with other people.""
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April 5, 2015
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100.0%
""We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.""
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