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“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
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“I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately”
― The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
― The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
“Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.”
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“As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear.”
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Ida’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ida’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
277 books
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45 friends
1,147 books
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34 friends
6 books
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151 friends
176 books
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40 friends
125 books
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15 friends
106 books
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62 friends
534 books
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69 friends
0 books
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8 friends
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