Dead Stars
A Short Stories, Classics, Romance book. Why would men so mismanage their lives? Greed, he thought, was what ruined so many. Greed--the desire to crowd into...
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So all these yearssince when?he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places in the heavens. Paz Marquez Benitez, Dead Stars // Lovehe seemed to have missed it. Or was the love that others told about a mere fabrication of perfervid imagination, an exaggeration of the commonplace, a glorification of insipid monotonies such as made up his love life? Was love a combination of circumstances, or sheer native capacity of soul? In those days love was, for him, still the eternal puzzle; for love, as he knew it, was a stranger to love as he divined it might be. Paz Marquez Benitez, Dead Stars // Why would men so mismanage their lives? Greed, he thought, was what ruined so many. Greed--the desire to crowd into a moment all the enjoyment it will hold, to squeeze from the hour all the emotion it will yield. Men commit themselves when but half-meaning to do so, sacrificing possible future fullness of ecstasy to the craving for immediate excitement. Greed--mortgaging the future--forcing the hand of Time, or of Fate. Paz Marquez Benitez, Dead Stars //
It's funny how we can all be Alfredo, Esperanza even Julia at one point in our lives. It's really crazy, this thing we all call 'love'. It can bring us pain, hope, happiness, it can even make us dream...But maybe, we have to stop loving with eyes wide shut. Before it's too late, we have to wake up and face reality. Because this love... This is not even a book. This was an article written by a Filipino for the Times magazine years ago. I have no idea what it is, but this story has left a huge impression on me. "Dead Stars" is actually a short story written by Paz Marquez Benitez in 1925, which ushered in an era of Philippine writing in English.The story is mainly about three people: Esperanza, Alfredo Salazar, and Julia Salas. Esperanza and Alfredo are engaged to be married, and during this period, Alfredo met Julia who he grew very fond...
