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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
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