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“Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human - however imperfectly - and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
“For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.”
― Juliet, Naked
― Juliet, Naked
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
Afroditi’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Afroditi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
497 books
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624 friends
506 books
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232 friends
237 books
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11 friends
375 books
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61 friends
833 books
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254 friends
1,249 books
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1,490 friends
1,674 books
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99 friends
855 books
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1,032 friends
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