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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“Bereavement is not the truncation of married love,” C. S. Lewis wrote, “but one of its regular phases—like the honeymoon.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
― Their Finest Hour
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
― Their Finest Hour
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
Simone’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Simone’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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23 friends
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18 friends
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