many quotes, because I am not alone
18 books read so far in 2026 There are always several others lying about which I flick through, read a poem or two, maybe a chapter here and there, artists' catalogues and 'how-to' books, I think you know what I mean, I live between books. N ever do I read novels simultaneously, I have to finish one before I can start another. excerpt from The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien "Baruch (Spinoza) had a terrible foreboding that he could love Pierke but not save him. 'I want my child to be with God,' Pierke said. 'To be held with kindness and benevolence in a better world.' 'It is our bodies alone that suffer.' 'And the soul?' Pierke asked. Baruch said nothing. 'There is no soul, that's what you believe. My child has no soul. We're superfluous in this universe.' 'The world doesn't belong to us,' Baruch said, 'but we belong to it. I am certain of this.' (....) 'You think you can't go on.' ...
