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Es gibt Begegnungen, auch mit Menschen, von denen wir überhaupt nichts wissen, die auf den ersten Blick unser ganzes Interesse erwecken, unvermittelt, plötzlich, ehe ein Wort gewechselt wurde.
“It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are.”
― Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
― Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.”
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I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.”
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Vana’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Vana’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
271 books
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97 friends
23 books
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1 friend
114 books
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44 friends
350 books
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1 friend
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Self help, and Spirituality
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