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“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
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“He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.”
― All The Pretty Horses
― All The Pretty Horses
“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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Shanna’s 2025 Year in Books
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