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“We are not idealized wild things.
We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
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“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
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“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
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“People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Bruna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bruna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
543 books
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302 friends
460 books
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5,000 friends
198 books
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17 friends
215 books
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89 friends
1,397 books
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251 friends
328 books
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76 friends
91 books
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89 friends
4 books
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13 friends
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