Leigh Lorenzetti

Leigh’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (58)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (157)
2024‎ (1)
2024-reading-list‎ (1)
2024-tbr‎ (1)
5-star-books‎ (1)
5-stars‎ (1)
absolute-favorites‎ (1)
all-time-favs‎ (1)
book-club‎ (1)

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drama‎ (1)
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fav‎ (1)
faves‎ (1)
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favs‎ (1)
home-library‎ (1)

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my-books‎ (1)
my-library‎ (1)
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Leigh’s Quotes

“The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.”
― William Golding

tags: humanity, pleasure, understanding

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“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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“Pero esa es otra historia y debe ser contada en otra ocasión.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

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“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

tags: clarity, obscurantism, philosophy

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