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“The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.”
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“Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?”
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“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
― Familiar letters
― Familiar letters
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frances’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Frances’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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101 friends
135 books
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60 friends
18 books
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29 friends
104 books
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110 friends
2 books
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48 friends
18 books
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169 friends
17 books
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70 friends
3 books
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24 friends
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