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“I teach you to be warriors in the garden so you will never be gardeners in the war. I give you the strength to fight, but you all must learn the strength of restraint.”
“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.”
― A History of Western Philosophy
― A History of Western Philosophy
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
Betsy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Betsy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
485 books
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25 friends
248 books
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17 friends
635 books
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70 friends
2,594 books
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475 friends
3,113 books
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74 friends
1,795 books
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216 friends
815 books
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1,240 friends
714 books
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150 friends
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