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as most of you may know, the gulf between what we know in our minds and what we feel in our hearts is often an insurmountable distance.
“You may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might have itself.”
― What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
― What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
“Life is one revelation after another. Things don’t always go to plan, no matter what your circumstances. But the flip side is all the unexpected, wonderful things that you could never have imagined happening. Ultimately it’s all for the best that many things don’t turn out the way we hoped.”
― What You Are Looking for is in the Library
― What You Are Looking for is in the Library
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“It was lunacy, this idea, that I could sleep myself into a new life. Preposterous. But there I was, approaching the depths of my journey”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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Chlaithem’s 2025 Year in Books
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