“I will still get angry at Ivan the coachman, I will still argue, I will express my thoughts ineptly, there will be a wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I will still blame her for my own terror and then repent of it, I will still not understand with my reason why I pray, and will go on praying - but my life now, my whole life, regardless of whatever may happen to me, each minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it were before, but possesses the undoubted meaning of that goodness I have the power to put into it!”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.”
― To the Lighthouse
and changing leaves.”
― To the Lighthouse
Elena’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elena’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Romance
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