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Carmen is Currently Reading

Carmen is currently reading

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

by Hallie Rubenhold (Goodreads Author)

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Carmen’s Quotes

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: hope, human-nature

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“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

tags: books, reading

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“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

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