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“The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.
[…]
Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”
― Invisible Cities
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Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.”
― Invisible Cities
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“Survival is insufficient.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Book Club, Cooking, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Science fiction, Self help, and Travel
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