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Aleks
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
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“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”
― Disgrace
― Disgrace
“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.”
― 十個詞彙裡的中國
― 十個詞彙裡的中國
“Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken by some trifle and in some strange way blind us to life.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“We imagine that we remember things as they were, while in fact all we carry into the future are fragments which reconstruct a wholly illusory past. That first death we witness will always be a murmur of voices down a corridor and a clock falling silent in the darkened room, the end of love is forever two spent cigarettes in a saucer and a white door closing.”
― Birchwood
― Birchwood
Aleks’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Aleks’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
4,206 books
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476 friends
1,234 books
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298 friends
968 books
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153 friends
91 books
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65 friends
1,014 books
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267 friends
1,563 books
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123 friends
1,121 books
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675 friends
7,572 books
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1,435 friends
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