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“And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”
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“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
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“Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say sometimes I act like I don't see you? I don't even know where to look! Living with you around is like is like living with a permanent dazzle. The fact that you even like me, or look at me, or brush by me, or hug me, or hold me, is so surprising that after it's over I have to go back through it a dozen times in my head to savor it and try and figure out what it was like because I was too busy being astounded while it was happening.”
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holly’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at holly’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
20 books
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603 books
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211 books
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246 books
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Art, Classics, Crime, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, and Science fiction
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