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Saskia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Saskia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Saskia Kalb
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De schoonheid van angst
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De gelukkige neuroot
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2022
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Vriend - De kunst om minder van elkaar te verwachten
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Saskia’s Recent Updates
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Saskia Kalb
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Roland Kemenade
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Saskia Kalb
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Esther Roth's review
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Vriend - De kunst om minder van elkaar te verwachten:
"Helder geschreven en ontroerend mooi!"
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"Friend by Saskia Kalb offers a rare combination of philosophical depth, psychological insight, economic perspective, and personal reflection. Kalb explores friendship from multiple angles without ever becoming overly academic or abstract.
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Wat een mooie review, en ik ben het helemaal met je eens wat betreft de sneeuwstorm: magisch.
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Jun 21, 2025 01:53AM
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Saskia Kalb
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The Nightingale Readers Group
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“Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.”
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“I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
“After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.”
― Death by Black Hole
― Death by Black Hole
“Much of what we call personality is not a fixed set of traits, only coping mechanisms a person acquired in childhood.”
― When the Body Says No
― When the Body Says No
“All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me.”
― A Man in Love
― A Man in Love
The Nightingale Readers Group
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Hello and welcome! I’m so glad you found your way here. The Nightingale is a book that really means a lot to me. To be completely honest with you, I ...more