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“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck”
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“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
So you mustn’t be frightened, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
So you mustn’t be frightened, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Nothing is ever behind us.”
― 2666
― 2666
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
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“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.”
― Little Dorrit
― Little Dorrit
Valentina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Valentina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,265 books
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212 friends
154 books
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66 friends
625 books
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535 friends
258 books
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94 friends
222 books
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93 friends
416 books
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117 friends
124 books
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294 friends
559 books
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133 friends
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