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“The only journey is the one within.”
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
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“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
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“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
Athena’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Athena’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
472 books
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85 friends
62 books
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34 friends
174 books
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226 friends
1,437 books
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300 friends
123 books
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29 friends
981 books
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104 friends
93 books
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135 friends
329 books
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84 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Self help, Spirituality, Sports, and Travel
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