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“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”
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“Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.”
― The Happy Prince
― The Happy Prince
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”
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“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
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“Can you not see," I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is—what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problem of the modern novel is—what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.”
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Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sarah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,037 books
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82 friends
233 books
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35 friends
470 books
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133 friends
62 books
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31 friends
240 books
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364 friends
61 books
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50 friends
238 books
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33 friends
47 books
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15 friends
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Art, Biography, Classics, Fantasy, Graphic novels, History, Manga, Memoir, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science fiction, and Spirituality
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