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“You are your best thing”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?”
― The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
― The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
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“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
Heather’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Heather’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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63 friends
861 books
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160 friends
590 books
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88 friends
1,384 books
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71 friends
202 books
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61 friends
1,474 books
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85 friends
379 books
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91 friends
938 books
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89 friends
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