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“the artist can create outside himself the perfect replica of his own intentions. The rest of us just create a mess, or something hopelessly wooden, no matter how brilliantly we imagined it. That’s”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“Fear is a habit like any other, and habits kill what is essential in ourselves.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“If you have always been criticised, from before you can remember, it becomes more or less impossible to locate yourself in the time or space before the criticism was made: to believe, in other words, that you yourself exist.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
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“I could never reconcile myself to the fact that just as you’ve recovered from your own childhood, and finally crawled out of the pit of it and felt the sun on your face for the first time, you have to give up that place in the sun to a baby you’re determined won’t suffer the way you did, and crawl back down into another pit of self-sacrifice to make sure she doesn’t!”
― Second Place
― Second Place
Rūta’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rūta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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49 friends
396 books
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220 books
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193 friends
402 books
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194 books
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311 books
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533 books
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259 friends
359 books
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