97,196 Words: Essays
By: Emmanuel Carrère
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer Over the course…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Of course I was being sincere, but you can be sincere and be wrong, or in any case you can persuade yourself that you’re wrong as sincerely as you persuaded yourself to the contrary. “Nine Columns for an Italian Magazine"-Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words: Essays
"Of course I was being sincere, but you can be sincere and be wrong, or in any case you can persuade yourself that you’re wrong as sincerely as you persuaded yourself to the contrary. “Nine Columns for an Italian Magazine"-Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words: Essays
"This fear [of commitment] is founded on a lucid and even wise apprehension of reality: the knowledge of the transience of things and feelings, of our inability to master them, of the risk that we may no longer be tomorrow who we are today, which also goes for the other person. But such lucidity and wisdom are paralyzing: if you listened to them, you wouldn’t say yes to anything… “Nine Columns for an Italian Magazine"-Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words: Essays
"This fear [of commitment] is founded on a lucid and even wise apprehension of reality: the knowledge of the transience of things and feelings, of our inability to master them, of the risk that we may no longer be tomorrow who we are today, which also goes for the other person. But such lucidity and wisdom are paralyzing: if you listened to them, you wouldn’t say yes to anything… “Nine Columns for an Italian Magazine"-Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words: Essays
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2. Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)
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4. Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
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Into the Wildmeets Helter Skelterin this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in… read more
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5. Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit
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20. 97,196 Words: Essays
By: Emmanuel Carrère
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer Over the course… read more
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"Of course I was being sincere, but you can be sincere and be wrong, or in any case you can persuade yourself that you’re wrong as sincerely as you persuaded yourself to the contrary. “Nine Columns fo…"-Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words: Essays
"This fear [of commitment] is founded on a lucid and even wise apprehension of reality: the knowledge of the transience of things and feelings, of our inability to master them, of the risk that we may…"-Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words: Essays
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