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“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
― The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Cleo’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cleo’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Biography, Crime, Fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, and Thriller
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