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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
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“To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.”
― Ignorance
― Ignorance
Sílvia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sílvia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
772 books
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20 friends
555 books
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17 friends
669 books
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31 friends
2 books
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91 friends
30 books
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27 friends
5 books
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48 friends
6 books
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31 friends
1 book
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5 friends
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