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“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
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“Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had no religious belief, but it was impossible not to think of an invisible presence or witness in the room, and that these words spoken aloud were like signatures on an unseen contract.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
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“The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
Venice’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Venice’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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42 friends
308 books
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225 friends
182 books
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14 friends
858 books
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84 friends
25 books
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91 friends
228 books
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102 friends
91 books
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38 friends
9 books
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80 friends
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