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“All cherry trees?” “Yes, all of them. My wife loved them.” “They must be beautiful in the spring.” “They are crawling with insects. In the fall there are dead leaves all over the place, and in winter the bare branches are bleak and
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“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Thief of Time
― Thief of Time
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Diggers
― Diggers
“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
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“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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Irene’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Irene’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Travel, science-fiction-fantasy, german-literature, european-literature, scandinavian-literature, and cozy-mystery
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