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“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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Chelle’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chelle’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
49,622 books
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363 friends
1,126 books
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172 friends
1,676 books
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49 friends
3,011 books
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3,715 friends
332 books
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39 friends
1,204 books
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62 friends
270 books
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15 friends
561 books
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26 friends
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