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“To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition.”
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To God, I'm the loyal opposition.”
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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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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.”
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“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”
― The House at Riverton
― The House at Riverton
Joanna’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Joanna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Suspense, and Thriller
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