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“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely”
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“The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
#ClassicsCommunity 2021 Reading Challenge
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Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maria’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
503 books
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78 friends
713 books
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50 friends
745 books
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61 friends
977 books
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272 friends
268 books
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108 friends
2,455 books
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215 friends
893 books
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236 friends
461 books
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107 friends
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Art, Classics, Crime, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Music, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Suspense, Thriller, and literature
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