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“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?”
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“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
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“The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye...”
― City of Thieves
― City of Thieves
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
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Laura’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Laura’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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