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Jenny is Currently Reading

Jenny is currently reading

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

bookshelves: 14-favourite-books, fantasy, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in June 2015

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Jun 02, 2015 01:28PM

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Can’t We Just Print More Money? Economics in Ten Simple Questions

by Rupal Patel

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May 18, 2024 06:28AM

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Twentieth Century History For Dummies

by Sean Lang

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Jun 06, 2021 02:37AM

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“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety

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“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

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“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: temptation

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“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: optimism

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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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