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strange yet excellent italian novel. the few good reactionary novels for all their insights and deep scorn for their noble subjects all do big lazy handwaves for the aristocracy but at least this one makes them look incapable of handling anything outside themselves
Jan 29, 2024
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Gabo is one of the GOATs, and after finishing the sociology introduction I want some novels.
Dec 20, 2024
Lyrical and tender, this is a short book but you’ll want to read it slowly simply because every page is packed with something devastating or gorgeous...or both
“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not.”
Jul 8, 2024
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so much to talk about, the sunglasses, the scarf, the fresh baguette and coffee, the always lovely cafe setting. I think this is the most swag ever captured on camera I aspire to be at this level
Feb 11, 2024
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alright hear me out: carbonation and coffee with a squeeze of orange shouldn’t work, but it does. Been making them daily and i feel a lot better in the morning each time i do
Mar 7, 2024
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the greatest love song of the 21st century??? wait…. They don’t love you like I love you
Feb 25, 2024