“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
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“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
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