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“To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...?”
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“Only the shallow know themselves”
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“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.”
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Marcus’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Marcus’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
358 books
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518 friends
1,274 books
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100 friends
205 books
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22 friends
1,063 books
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494 friends
398 books
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113 friends
251 books
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18 friends
821 books
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97 friends
382 books
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65 friends
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