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"This is actually way more engrossing than I originally thought! For such a 'tell not show' kind of book, im gong to make it my mission to read more "stories" this summer!" — May 20, 2026 07:06AM
"This is actually way more engrossing than I originally thought! For such a 'tell not show' kind of book, im gong to make it my mission to read more "stories" this summer!" — May 20, 2026 07:06AM
“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“We poor mortals are made like this, a mixture of contrasts, shade and light, fears and exaltations.”
― No Picnic on Mount Kenya
― No Picnic on Mount Kenya
“the kind of love I love to fall into is the kind of love that’s most at home in the kitchen; a domestic kind of love; an intimate, easy, buttery kind of love.”
― In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
― In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life
“This is the human paradox of altitude: that it both exalts the individual mind and erases it. Those who travel to mountain tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
“To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”
― Ways of Seeing
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”
― Ways of Seeing
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