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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

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Book cover for How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Nicole LePera

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deeply constricted by a free-floating sluggishness and dissatisfaction that made me question the point of everything.

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― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

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“I was appropriating my fear of total disappearance as a spiritual practice. I was inhabiting disappearance as something that could reveal and inform, rather than totalise and annihilate.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

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“I looked at dozens of apartments and when I entered the hallway of the one I moved into next I knew I could live there because it was cheap and the hallway was baby blue. My friends all told me it smelled as bad there as it did in the last one but I found a heads-up penny on the threshold”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

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“...somewhere in his murkiest depths, he wasn't so much afraid of being left again as condemning someone else to second best.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay

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“To borrow Granny’s description, a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then do they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

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