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Rose is Currently Reading

Rose is currently reading

Fairy Tale

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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— Jul 09, 2026 10:14PM

Jul 09, 2026 10:14PM

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Alkibiades

by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fiction, greek-mythology, historical-fiction, nederlands, pauze, currently-reading

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Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

by Yukio Mishima

bookshelves: fiction, japan, currently-reading, pauze

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Rose’s Quotes

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

tags: aging, death-and-dying

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“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

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“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

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Reading the Classics — 4039 members — last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
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All welcome! A bookclub for those of us who spend too much time on dark academia aesthetic, but also, enjoy reading and knowledge.

Boekenroedel — 342 members — last activity Jul 02, 2026 04:59AM
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