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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
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“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people...Think of things in themselves.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.”
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“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kitzel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kitzel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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276 friends
681 books
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630 books
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635 books
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480 books
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193 books
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64 friends
292 books
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34 friends
564 books
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51 friends
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