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“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“My ego had always been an issue. I knew that intellectual attainment was morally neutral at best, but when bad things happened to me I made myself feel better by thinking about how smart I was.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“I’m bettering myself, I thought. I’m going to become so smart that no one will understand me.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“A searing anxiety developed inside me at this thought, in the same form it always took no matter what external stimulus triggered it: first the realization that I would die, then that everyone else would die, and then that the universe itself would eventually experience heat death, a kind of thought sequence that expanded outward endlessly in forms too huge to be contained inside my body.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
Kate’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kate’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
54 books
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6 friends
155 books
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23 friends
109 books
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8 friends
56 books
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5 friends
246 books
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10 friends
102 books
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8 friends
174 books
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9 friends
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