Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for ...
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…
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Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly ever read 'difficult...
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening t...
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Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to...
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening t...
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He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol ...
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I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader...
