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“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
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“To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Ignorance
― Ignorance
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
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Lidan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lidan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Thriller, Travel, Young-adult, and War
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