Sheena
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“He thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up
a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the
uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.”
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a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the
uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.”
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“Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”
― Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition
― Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition
“The teeming hordes of living things on Earth, not only in space but in time, are actually all one massive, single organism just as certainly as each one of us (in our own minds) seems to be a distinct human being throughout our limited lifetime… Each of us is, equally, an independent living human and also just one utterly minute, utterly brief unit of a single vast body that is life on Earth. From this point of view, the passing of human generations, in peace or turmoil, is nothing more than the shedding of cells from one’s skin.”
― Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
― Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
Sheena’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sheena’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adult Fiction, African American, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Science fiction, Self help, Travel, Young-adult, and War
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