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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
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“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
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“Like billowing clouds,
Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,
The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.”
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Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,
The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.”
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“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
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eververdant’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at eververdant’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
704 books
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6 friends
2,354 books
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414 books
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33 books
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383 books
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4,953 friends
238 books
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59 friends
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Fantasy, Historical fiction, History, Music, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, and Science fiction
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