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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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“Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
― Any Number Can Play
― Any Number Can Play
“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,203 books
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35 friends
894 books
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53 friends
3,496 books
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73 friends
713 books
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10 friends
140 books
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43 friends
176 books
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42 friends
47 books
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43 friends
204 books
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97 friends
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