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Alessia is Currently Reading

Alessia is currently reading

East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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Trust Fall

by Lynn Painter (Goodreads Author)

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Alessia’s Notes & Highlights

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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Connell always gets what he wants, and then feels sorry for himself when what he wants doesn’t make him happy.

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Mark Porton

I think this may be more common than people realise!

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Alessia

Absolutely!

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Alessia’s Quotes

“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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“People truly engaged in life have messy houses.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: despair, happiness

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“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: art, culture, intellectual-snobbery, literature, snobbery

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