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“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
― The Third Man
― The Third Man
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
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“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
Marta’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Marta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
735 books
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51 friends
658 books
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11 friends
710 books
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34 friends
468 books
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24 friends
475 books
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9 friends
419 books
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66 friends
24 books
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23 friends
130 books
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11 friends
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