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A perfect misanthropist’s heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation
“Everyone can fraternize by means of these simple combinations of tones”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel
“And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their un-escapable social destiny.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“I know what you mean,” said Goethe. “It’s just those details—poorly chosen clothes”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel
“Such enumeration of pleasures extends through the book like a beautiful litany. “Living is being happy: seeing”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel
“Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, ever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter—this is what life is, herein lies its task.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
Maureen’s 2025 Year in Books
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