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“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
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“She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.”
― The Solitude of Prime Numbers
― The Solitude of Prime Numbers
“People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
― The Solitude of Prime Numbers
― The Solitude of Prime Numbers
“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
Michal’s 2025 Year in Books
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381 books
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616 books
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1,086 books
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969 books
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1,231 books
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19 books
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149 books
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