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“We would rather die in dread/ Than climb the cross of the moment/ And let our illusions die.”
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“One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
“Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
“She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
Cecilia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cecilia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,527 books
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331 friends
671 books
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35 friends
1 book
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16 friends
1 book
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74 friends
5 books
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15 friends
5 books
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166 friends
111 books
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18 friends
5 books
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14 friends
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