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“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
― Mad Love
― Mad Love
“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
―
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
―
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
Shawn’s 2025 Year in Books
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