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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
― Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
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“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
Francesca’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Francesca’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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352 friends
48 books
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200 books
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36 friends
291 books
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244 books
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17 books
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216 friends
4 books
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22 friends
2 books
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153 friends
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