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“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“All art is quite useless.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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Shelby’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shelby’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
363 books
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35 friends
518 books
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151 friends
233 books
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453 books
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322 books
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1,717 books
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388 books
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192 friends
1,075 books
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330 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, History, Manga, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Suspense, Spirituality, and Feminism
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