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“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
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“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.”
― A Tale of Love and Darkness
― A Tale of Love and Darkness
“It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.”
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“And what if ever on some distant day a memory comes to you of an old familiar whiff or the sound of dogs barking far off or a driving hailstorm at dawn and you suddenly fail to grasp what it is you have done, what madness might have possessed you, what devil lured you from your home to the end of the world?”
― A Perfect Peace
― A Perfect Peace
“Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
Alejandro’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alejandro’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
285 books
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93 friends
18 books
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5 friends
344 books
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137 friends
435 books
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77 friends
1,376 books
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128 friends
324 books
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96 friends
278 books
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82 friends
696 books
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169 friends
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