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It was unthinkable to stop the griever from yelling. No one ever tried to “heal” him, or hush up any inappropriate blather they might spout. The people knew grief was not a sickness nor any kind of an affliction, but a pain-filled testament
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“Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.”
― A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
― A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
“Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.”
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Michelle’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michelle’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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138 friends
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106 friends
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50 friends
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