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“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
Trav’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Trav’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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103 friends
783 books
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129 friends
1,318 books
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186 friends
946 books
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169 friends
1,188 books
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45 friends
204 books
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21 friends
26 books
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41 friends
1,139 books
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190 friends
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