Antes alegre, expansiva e toda amante, ela tinha se tornado, ao envelhecer (à maneira do vinho em contato com o ar que vira vinagre) de humor difícil, queixosa, nervosa. Tinha sofrido tanto, sem se queixar, primeiro quando o via correr
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“He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”
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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
50 books to read before you die
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These are the named books: 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien 2 1984 by George Orwell 3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4 The Gra ...more
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*CURRENTLY SEEKING NEW MODERATOR/GROUP MANAGER* A group for those who want to read Tolstoy's "War and Peace" over the year 2022 by reading a chapter ...more
Mariana’s 2024 Year in Books
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