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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper,” Orwell recalled, “but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which
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“Here are the facts: I am thirty-three, almost a year into a job in Silicon Valley, waiting for the truth of my life to crack open and reveal itself.”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now.”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“We make them familiar in order to understand them, to reduce our fear of what is beyond this life. There is safety in metaphors. The truth is far more terrifying:”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“Doesn't it overwhelm you sometimes -- To be alive? Don't you sometimes feel like at any moment you could be torn away from yourself? From your life?”
― Ripe
― Ripe
“My mind can make love out of anything, even the smallest of shards.”
― Ripe
― Ripe
Lynae’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lynae’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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12 friends
776 books
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16 books
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431 books
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80 books
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429 books
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