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“Why do I thrash about, why do I fuss inside this narrow, limited frame, when life, the whole of life, with all its joys, is open to me?”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Keep away from the literal-minded folk, and ignore the scoffers.”
― The Secret Commonwealth
― The Secret Commonwealth
“Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world”
― The Essex Serpent
― The Essex Serpent
“To be something, to have status in society, to be born at the centre of things, to live through momentous times, to be part of the world’s anthology of stories - if only in the gap between the lines, between the words, between the letters, or even in the minute blank space inside the lower-case ‘e’, just once in that dauntingly long book; could there be any more human desire than that? Don’t we all long to be something, to feel that we exist, that others notice our existence, for the brief space of time that we are here?”
― Codex 1962
― Codex 1962
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Maddy’s 2025 Year in Books
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Classics, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Travel, Ballet, Magical Realism, Mythology, Greek Mythology, Eccentric, European History, French Literature, Russian Literature, Czech Literature, Eastern European Literature, Space Opera, Magic, Soviet Fiction, and Soviet Literature
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