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I’m older, pushing thirty now, and more clever in figuring out ways to do less and eat more. You know, quiet quitting. That’s pretty much what my life has become—where once there was passion and joy and energy and connection, then a burning
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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― The Essays
― The Essays
Olivia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Olivia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
100 books
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4 friends
965 books
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33 friends
283 books
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58 friends
13 books
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3 friends
Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Suspense, and catholic
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