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Cynthia
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“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.”
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys' philosophies--these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.”
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Cynthia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cynthia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
7,916 books
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129 friends
453 books
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77 friends
262 books
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179 friends
1,305 books
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54 friends
134 books
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37 friends
1,891 books
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78 friends
539 books
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54 friends
319 books
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41 friends
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