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the will needs obstacles advice/living

The will needs obstacles in order to exercise its power; when it is never thwarted, when no effort is needed to achieve one’s desires, because one has placed one’s desires only in the things that can be obtained by stretching out one’s hand, the will grows impotent. If you walk on a level all the t…

—p.98 The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero
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the woman who at the time was my wife

Back to the difficult subject … My relapse into searching for pornography last year, I mean. I’ll need to go back to some earlier events. Towards the end of May ’98, I met Chl, and then, around the middle of July, our romantic relationship began. This made the atmosphere in the house where I was li…

—p.78 by Mario Levrero
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the woman who at the time was my wife

Back to the difficult subject … My relapse into searching for pornography last year, I mean. I’ll need to go back to some earlier events. Towards the end of May ’98, I met Chl, and then, around the middle of July, our romantic relationship began. This made the atmosphere in the house where I was li…

—p.78 by Mario Levrero
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never dream of mixing your writing and your life

And just like that, it’s almost 7 a.m. I knew this would happen. The workshop. All day long, the workshop. It was satisfying; my students are excellent. But it tires me out, it tires me out and then afterwards I don’t want to go to sleep for hours and hours. At least I wasn’t messing around with ga…

—p.68 by Mario Levrero
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she feels sorry for people too easily

Chl is still making progress with her therapy; it’s interesting to see how she’s opening up to topics that she used to be very closed to. These days she talks easily about things that were once completely off limits, or too painful to address. She told me on the phone that today she attacked the th…

—p.59 by Mario Levrero