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“I mean I get used to myself at night, it takes that long sometimes. The first thing in the morning I feel sort of undefined, but by midnight you've done all the things you have to do, I mean all the things like meeting people and, you know, and paying bills, and by night those things are done because by then there's nothing you can do about them if they aren't done, so there you are alone and you have the things that matter, after the whole day you can sort of take everything that's happened and go over it alone. I mean I'm never really sure who I am until night, he added.”
― The Recognitions
― The Recognitions
“It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.”
― The Recognitions
― The Recognitions
“Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.”
― The Recognitions
― The Recognitions
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness. Here and now for the first time he fully appreciated the enjoyment of eating when he wanted to eat, drinking when he wanted to drink, sleeping when he wanted to sleep, of warmth when he was cold, of talking to a fellow man when he wished to talk and to hear a human voice. The satisfaction of one's needs—good food, cleanliness, and freedom—now that he was deprived of all this, seemed to Pierre to constitute perfect happiness”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
Brett’s 2025 Year in Books
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5 friends
83 books
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259 books
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29 friends
39 books
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9 friends
15 books
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3 friends
105 books
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7 friends
54 books
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5 friends
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