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“Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more,” says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. “But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that
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“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
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“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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“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
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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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