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“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
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“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Clarissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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207 books
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196 books
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89 books
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42 friends
452 books
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8 friends
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