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“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
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“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
― Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
― Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
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with your one wild and precious life?”
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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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Srishti’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Srishti’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
393 books
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212 friends
413 books
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139 friends
891 books
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127 friends
151 books
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46 friends
746 books
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367 friends
443 books
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84 friends
213 books
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108 friends
157 books
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69 friends
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