“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into...”
― Robinson Crusoe
― Robinson Crusoe
Yane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Yane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Suspense, Young-adult, and dystopia
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