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“Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Circe
― Circe
“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“The exploitation of man by man and the logic of maximum profit, which before had been considered an abomination, had returned to become the linchpins of freedom and democracy everywhere.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“When there’s too much silence, she said, so many ideas come to mind, I don’t pay attention. Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likable ones and the unlikable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
Beatriz’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Beatriz’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
187 books
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14 friends
139 books
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16 friends
77 books
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3 friends
676 books
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12 friends
277 books
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27 friends
124 books
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18 friends
223 books
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12 friends
25 books
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5 friends
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