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There may be almost nine million people living here, but New York is a city of lonely people full of regrets. It’s my job to make their final moments a little less lonesome.
“The Soviet authorities didn’t outlaw climbing completely; they just shifted it from an individual experience, which they categorized as a “relic of bourgeois alpinism,” to a collective endeavour that could be manipulated by the propaganda machine.”
― Freedom Climbers: The Golden Age of Polish Climbing
― Freedom Climbers: The Golden Age of Polish Climbing
“Happy are the lands of the North whose seasons are poets, the summer composing a legend of snow, the winter a tale of sun. Sad the tropics, where in the sweating-room nothing changes very much.”
― Wind, Sand And Stars
― Wind, Sand And Stars
“A belief in genius is a large part of what plagues us, and I have found that people widely praised for the power of their intellect are as likely to illuminate as they are to confound. “Genius” may or may not help a writer whose job is, above all else, to clarify.”
― The Message
― The Message
“Moving from one room to the next I inhaled in passing that incense of an old library which is worth all the perfumes of the world.”
― Wind, Sand and Stars
― Wind, Sand and Stars
“He was, in the end, the sort of man who causes us to ask ourselves, “What does he live for? What does he find in life? What logic compels him to keep breathing? What philosophy drives him as he wanders the earth?” But we ask in vain if we fail to look beyond the surface—if we forget that beneath each surface lurks another realm, in which a caged mind whirls alone. It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.”
― Madonna in a Fur Coat
― Madonna in a Fur Coat
Lauren’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lauren’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
729 books
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55 friends
397 books
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106 friends
314 books
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53 friends
40 books
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200 friends
153 books
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11 friends
1,040 books
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64 friends
753 books
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63 friends
451 books
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21 friends
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