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Books I Loved Reading in 2024
The Books I Enjoyed Most in 2024
Zeus, who set mortals on the roadto understanding, who made“learning by suffering” into an effective law.There drips before the heart, instead of sleep,The misery of pain recalled: good sense comes to men. It’s someone able to liberate themselves from the chains that hinder them, to scrupulously scrutinize ideas, and to show determination to undertake tasks requiring excellence, strength, and courage to break away from conventional values, traditions, and societal expectations. The recipe for becoming a good novelist, for example, is easy to give, but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one says, ‘I do not have enough talent.’ One has only to make a hundred or so sketches for novels, none longer than two pages but of such distinctness that every word in them is necessary; one should write down anecdotes each day until one has learned how to give them the most pregnant and effective form; one should be tireless in collecting and describing human types and characters; one should above all relate things to others and listen to others relate, keeping one’s eyes and ears open for the effect produced on those present; one should travel like a landscape painter or costume designer; one should excerpt for oneself out of the individual sciences everything that will produce an artistic effect when it is well described; one should, finally, reflect on the motives of human actions, disdain no signpost to instruction about them, and be a collector of these things by day and night.
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