The Prophet too had been irremovable from my memories
The Prophet too had been irremovable from my memories
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
100 Years of Solitude, before reading this book I'd no idea that a book could be so perfectly constructed. It was one of the most daunting reads of my life.
Emotionally speaking, Looking For Alaska by John Green made a huge impression on me, I really felt close to the characters. His writing makes me feel so light. :]
The last good book I read.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so - Mark Twain
The preachers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves - Henry David Thoreau
The way to see faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery - Leo Tolstoy
With me it's probably the feminist books i read in the 1980s, Marge Piercey and co, they made me feel like a beast because as a man I'm capable of being aroused by the way a woman is dressed.
Of course that form of feminism is outmoted now, and I guess I must have enjoyed a good guilt trip for reading them all in the first place.
What are regrets? Just lessons we haven't learned yet - Beth Orton
'In Search of Lost Time' (Remembrances of Things Past) by Proust
Technically 7 books (6 in the Penguin translation I read) but all form one immense novel. I've read so much great literature, but nothing has remained with me like Proust. I had wanted to read it for years but was daunted by the size and the style. At first it wasn't easy going but I quickly fell in love with it, and fell in love with all that time I spent reading it, the beautiful prose and reflections on memory, sensuality, life, love, death, feelings, art, sensitivity. I've heard that you don't just read Proust, you live it; it may sound like a cliche but in my case I found it to be true, and no book has affected me more.
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