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“I began to imagine how I would like to be living right at that moment. I wanted to be happy, curious, joyful – living every moment intensely, drinking the water of life thirstily. Believing again in my dreams. Able to fight for what I wanted.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Quite often I’m terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but that’s usually my own fault for the simple reason that I’m too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible for them to turn, when in fact, quite often, they are still on the turn and have some way to go until they have turned out completely.”
― Pond: Stories
― Pond: Stories
“For now, what is important is not finding the answer, but looking for it.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“I realized how much I wanted to recover my childhood faith, when I had believed in angels and miracles. But I couldn't possibly bring it back simply through an act of will.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“The truth is, I had never forgotten love, even when it had deemed me unworthy of fighting for it. But love had been difficult, and I had been reluctant to cross its frontiers.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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Hannah’s 2025 Year in Books
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255 books
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261 books
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