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“I know why I’m going—and, Tom, I know where I’m going, and I am content.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“My purpose was simply to diminish that mass of contradictions and abuses which eventually turn legal procedure into a wilderness where decent people hardly dare venture, and where bandits abound.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“No, they didn’t have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today.”
― The Shipping News
― The Shipping News
Patrick’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Patrick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,075 books
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4,994 friends
264 books
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10 friends
7 books
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7 friends
633 books
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3 friends
76 books
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3 friends
70 books
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3 friends
331 books
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28 friends
865 books
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5 friends
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