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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
“When love is not madness it is not love.”
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“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
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Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
921 books
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102 friends
661 books
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162 friends
651 books
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59 friends
271 books
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46 friends
31 books
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61 friends
3 books
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42 friends
0 books
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156 friends
0 books
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24 friends
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