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“We all go through a challenge in life because without a challenge there’d be no reason to keep going toward your future.”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“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
“I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and several beliefs could live in peace; but I was wrong to forget that in any combat between fanaticism and common sense the latter has rarely the upper hand.”
― 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 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Patrick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,008 books
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4,994 friends
264 books
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10 friends
0 books
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7 friends
712 books
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3 friends
50 books
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3 friends
71 books
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3 friends
360 books
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29 friends
966 books
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5 friends
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