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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“I am rooted, but I flow.”
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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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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
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I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
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Char’s 2025 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, History, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult
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