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»Ich kann nicht aus mir einen Menschen herausschneiden, der vielleicht für die Freundschaft mit ihm geeigneter wäre, als ich es bin.«
“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy vicitim to the charitible deceptions of nostalgia. ”
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“The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
My Buzzword-A-thon 2025
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Buzzwordathon
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The Buzzword Readathon (#buzzwordathon) is a monthly readathon, running the first week of each month (1st through 7th). Each month will have a designa ...more
Polly’s 2025 Year in Books
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