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“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
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“We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.”
― The Famished Road
― The Famished Road
“Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.”
― Oroonoko
― Oroonoko
“The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.”
― No Longer at Ease
― No Longer at Ease
“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
Beverly’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Beverly’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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418 books
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1 book
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204 books
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13 books
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108 books
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353 friends
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