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“To try to write love is to confront the muck of language; that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive (by the limitless expansion of the ego, by emotive submersion) and impoverished (by the codes on which love diminishes and levels it).”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“...language is never innocent.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance...”
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Erin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
202 books
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353 friends
1,286 books
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7 friends
3,606 books
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197 friends
1,738 books
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168 friends
782 books
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4 friends
227 books
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11 friends
7,820 books
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104 friends
579 books
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52 friends
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