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“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“A fool with a tool is still a fool.”
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“He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it.”
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Julie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Julie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,188 books
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171 friends
699 books
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68 friends
805 books
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66 friends
596 books
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97 friends
636 books
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159 friends
1,598 books
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103 friends
186 books
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6 friends
399 books
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69 friends
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