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Frances Lin
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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
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“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
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Frances’s 2024 Year in Books
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741 books
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25 friends
551 books
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96 friends
109 books
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572 books
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228 books
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1,300 books
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192 books
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0 books
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