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“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
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“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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Manu’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Manu’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
923 books
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24 friends
271 books
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14 friends
248 books
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63 friends
621 books
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97 friends
880 books
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44 friends
977 books
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259 friends
2,546 books
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4,353 friends
1,830 books
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450 friends
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