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“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Candide, or, Optimism
― Candide, or, Optimism
“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”
― Blue Horses: Poems
― Blue Horses: Poems
“I am growing up,’ she thought, taking her taper. 'I am losing my illusions, perhaps to acquire new ones,”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“And a naïve part of me thinks that since we have made it this far, we will make it forever. If we existed for even a second, we could exist eternally.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
kiera’s 2025 Year in Books
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527 books
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196 books
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801 books
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924 books
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110 books
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1,001 books
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241 books
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