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“There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.”
― Everyman
― Everyman
“Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me...I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
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“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of myself, in a hurry? This:
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For indeed my life is a perpetual question mark--my thirst for books, my observations of people, all tend to satisfy a great, overwhelming desire to know, to understand, to find an answer to a million questions. And gradually the answers are revealed, many things are explained, and above all, many things are given names and described, and my restlessness is subdued. Then I become an exclamatory person, clapping my hands to the immense surprises the world holds for me, and falling from one ecstasy into another. I have the habit of peeping and prying and listening and seeking--passionate curiosity and expectation. But I have also the habit of being surprised, the habit of being filled with wonder and satisfaction each time I stumble on some wondrous thing. The first habit could make me a philosopher or a cynic or perhaps a humorist. But the other habit destroys all the delicate foundations, and I find each day that I am still...only a Woman!”
― The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923
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For indeed my life is a perpetual question mark--my thirst for books, my observations of people, all tend to satisfy a great, overwhelming desire to know, to understand, to find an answer to a million questions. And gradually the answers are revealed, many things are explained, and above all, many things are given names and described, and my restlessness is subdued. Then I become an exclamatory person, clapping my hands to the immense surprises the world holds for me, and falling from one ecstasy into another. I have the habit of peeping and prying and listening and seeking--passionate curiosity and expectation. But I have also the habit of being surprised, the habit of being filled with wonder and satisfaction each time I stumble on some wondrous thing. The first habit could make me a philosopher or a cynic or perhaps a humorist. But the other habit destroys all the delicate foundations, and I find each day that I am still...only a Woman!”
― The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923
Paula’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Paula’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,016 books
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193 friends
157 books
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3,061 friends
2,332 books
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71 friends
134 books
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30 friends
359 books
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95 friends
1,047 books
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79 friends
208 books
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25 friends
975 books
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541 friends
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