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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
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“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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Angie Simas’s 2025 Year in Books
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