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The pleasures of such relationships as theirs are permitted on Grand Isle, along with billiards on Sunday, shocking books, and frank conversation in mixed company. All this is the freedom permitted by the presumption of a final innocence,
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“The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?”
― Life of Pi
Doesn't that make life a story?”
― Life of Pi
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
― Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
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Xhensila’s 2025 Year in Books
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585 books
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311 books
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244 books
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140 books
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