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“Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“You’re like a rose in a graveyard. I wonder what you could have turned into without the war.”
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“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn't exist yet.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
Danielle’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Danielle’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,605 books
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54 friends
558 books
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100 friends
0 books
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5 friends
107 books
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71 friends
1 book
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22 friends
4 books
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6 friends
1 book
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123 friends
1 book
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9 friends
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