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“Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.”
― The Return of the Native
― The Return of the Native
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
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“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
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“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
Lucie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lucie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,836 books
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102 friends
2,870 books
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118 friends
529 books
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24 friends
226 books
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8 friends
51 books
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0 books
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8 friends
1,827 books
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153 friends
53 books
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8 friends
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