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“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”
― Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.”
― Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
― Death in Venice and Other Tales
“I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
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“We all make mistakes in our youth of which we are ashamed. The difference is that the rest of us can forgive the child we were and believe in the honour of the adult we have become. - Gwyddhien”
― Dreaming the Bull
― Dreaming the Bull
“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call us barbarians. - Longinus Sdapeze”
― Dreaming the Bull
― Dreaming the Bull
Claire’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Claire’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
952 books
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50 friends
663 books
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797 friends
691 books
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339 books
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7 books
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328 books
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7 books
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97 friends
48 books
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