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Most people thought the biggest sacrifice they could make was to die for something. They were wrong. The biggest sacrifice you could make was to live for something—to allow it to consume you and turn you into a version of yourself you
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“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
― In Watermelon Sugar
― In Watermelon Sugar
“I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!”
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“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
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“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
Betsy’s 2025 Year in Books
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