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“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
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“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
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“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color-that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist more completely than it ever reveals hi m”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
Shannon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shannon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,179 books
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151 friends
8,270 books
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127 friends
302 books
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31 friends
294 books
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85 friends
103 books
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65 friends
762 books
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67 friends
20 books
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42 friends
1 book
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49 friends
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