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“there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.”
― Sculpting in Time
― Sculpting in Time
“the human intellect is free to destroy itself.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“It occurred to him that he had not spent his life as he should have done. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false. And his professional duties and the whole arrangement of his life and of his family, and all his social and official interests, might all have been false.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“What do you want? What do you want?” he repeated to himself. “What do I want? To live and not to suffer,” he answered. And again he listened with such concentrated attention that even his pain did not distract him. “To live? How?” asked his inner voice. “Why, to live as I used to—well and pleasantly.” “As you lived before, well and pleasantly?” the voice repeated. And in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life.”
― The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
― The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
45 books
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10 friends
0 books
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9 friends
183 books
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9 friends
76 books
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5 friends
57 books
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4 friends
528 books
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10 friends
105 books
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8 friends
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