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“The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”
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“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.”
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“Your memory feels like home to me.
So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.”
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So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
Candace’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Candace’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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64 friends
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54 friends
140 books
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527 books
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390 friends
634 books
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71 friends
15 books
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62 friends
269 books
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63 friends
88 books
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48 friends
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