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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“Being myself meant not only never being quite right, but also never feeling at ease, always expecting to be interrupted or corrected, to have my privacy invaded and my unsure person set upon.”
― Out of Place
― Out of Place
“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.”
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“Insight doesn’t happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.”
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“The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing.”
― Human, All Too Human
― Human, All Too Human
Alex’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alex’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,212 books
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109 friends
1,067 books
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1,370 friends
3,027 books
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2,823 friends
2,791 books
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2,252 friends
1,746 books
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724 friends
3,180 books
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138 friends
1,039 books
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1,141 friends
977 books
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547 friends
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