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"Naples, 6th June 1939
'I’m sitting on a balcony with the whole Bay of Naples below me, on the fourth floor – and watching the twilight come sweeping in over Vesuvius. It’s so beautiful it’s positively alarming to think of all the lovely things that come to us undeserved.'
Michael Monroe, 'Harmony of the Wind'" — May 26, 2020 11:41PM
"Naples, 6th June 1939
'I’m sitting on a balcony with the whole Bay of Naples below me, on the fourth floor – and watching the twilight come sweeping in over Vesuvius. It’s so beautiful it’s positively alarming to think of all the lovely things that come to us undeserved.'
Michael Monroe, 'Harmony of the Wind'" — May 26, 2020 11:41PM
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.”
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“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
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“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
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Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street”
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“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
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Jola’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Poetry, Travel, and Diaries
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