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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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“the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third – before long the best lines cancel out – and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true”
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“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
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“There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
Alethea’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alethea’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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87 friends
837 books
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123 friends
595 books
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139 friends
70 books
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44 friends
74 books
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137 books
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11 friends
74 books
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13 friends
493 books
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8 friends
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