"Forgive Me: I Have Slept.To Sleep Is Not To Live. Peace To All Men.To Live Is Not To Sigh, Nor To Glimpse

"Forgive me: I have slept. To sleep is not to live. Peace to all men. To live is not to sigh, nor to glimpse words which may still live us. To live in words? Words die, are beautiful to hear, but unenduring. Like this clear night. Yesterday at dawn. Or when the completed day draws out its final beam, which falls upon your face. It seals your eyes with a single stroke of light Sleep. The night is long, but already it is past."

Vicente Aleixandre, The Poet remembers his life

Book Review: La Gallina degollada y otros cuentos, Horacio Quiroga

My favorite quote of the book:

"... y, como pasa fatalmente con todos los matrimonios jóvenes que se han amado intensamente una vez siquiera, la reconciliación llegó, tanto más efusiva cuanto más infames fueran los agravios."

My Full Review:

Pending review, I need to yap about this author.

My Other 2024 Readings.

"How long have I stared at you

without looking at you, in the image

exact and unreachable

betraying you in the mirror!

'Kiss me', you say. I kiss you,

and while I kiss you I think

in how cold would they be

your lips in the mirror.

'All my soul for you',

you murmur, but in the chest

I feel a void that only

will be filled by that soul

that you won't give to me.

The soul that demures itself

with a costume of clarities

in your mirror shape."

"¡Cuánto rato the he mirado...!", Pedro Salinas

Book Review: And then there were none, Agatha Christie

My favorite quote of the book:

I longed to commit such a mysterious crime, no one would be able to solve it. But now I realize that art is not enough for the artists, they wish the glory too. So do I, I must confess humbly, I feel the human wish of letting my peers know of my wit.

Pending review, I'll revisit eventualy, it's a quite fascinating novel, catching your attention from the prologue already.

My other 2024 readings

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