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“So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we've banished others from our group and therefore our circle of concern.”
― The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
― The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
“And when the dawn comes creeping in,
Cautiously I shall raise
Myself to watch the daylight win.”
― The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
Cautiously I shall raise
Myself to watch the daylight win.”
― The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
“The weather. It's like a poem. Where each word is more than one thing at once and everything's a metaphor. The meaning condensed into rhythm and sound and the spaces between sentences. It's all intense and sharp, like the cold and the wind.”
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“It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey.”
― Civil Disobedience
― Civil Disobedience
“The apocalypse didn't happen overnight. The world didn't end in a satisfying climax of explosive special effects. It was slow. It was boring. It was one little thing at a time. One moral compromise, one abandoned ideal, one more justified injustice. No dramatic wave of destruction sweeping across the world, just scattered spots of rot forming throughout the decades, seemingly isolated incidents until the moment they all merged.”
― The Burning World
― The Burning World
Arwen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Arwen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
463 books
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55 friends
61 books
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50 friends
180 books
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62 friends
0 books
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5 friends
31 books
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58 friends
14 books
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2 friends
1 book
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12 friends
1 book
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31 friends
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