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“Napoleon taught ordinary people that they could make history, and convinced his followers they were taking part in an adventure, a pageant, an experiment, an epic whose splendour would draw the attention of posterity for centuries to come.”
― Napoleon: A Life
― Napoleon: A Life
“When the moon of mourning is set and gone.
Over Glinaduna.
Lonu nula.
Ourselves, oursouls alone.
At the site of salvocean.
And watch would the letter you’re wanting be coming may be.
And cast ashore.”
― Finnegans Wake
Over Glinaduna.
Lonu nula.
Ourselves, oursouls alone.
At the site of salvocean.
And watch would the letter you’re wanting be coming may be.
And cast ashore.”
― Finnegans Wake
“The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.”
― The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
― The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.”
― Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938
― Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938
“Novels are narratives to be in. To live in. To exist in. Not primarily forms to jump into and get to the end of. It’s a substance that the great big novel becomes…which invites you to be in it, not necessarily to leave it. To move around in it. To move laterally.”
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Simon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Simon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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4,991 friends
28 books
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250 friends
866 books
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106 friends
3,092 books
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3,453 friends
7,929 books
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1,290 friends
163 books
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429 friends
1,826 books
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103 friends
1,165 books
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4,821 friends
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