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“The eye: the window to the soul; the center of the face's beauty; the point where a person's identity is concentrated; but at the same time an optical instrument that requires constant washing, wetting, maintenance by a special liquid dosed with salt. So the gaze, the greatest marvel man possesses, is regularly interrupted by a mechanical washing action.”
― Identity
― Identity
“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
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“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself.”
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“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh had gone through; I dream of what it may go through. I record here the actions of optical nerves, of taste buds, of sensory perception. And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Jesse Ross’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jesse Ross’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
416 books
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75 friends
202 books
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62 books
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88 friends
103 books
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2 books
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108 friends
94 books
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37 friends
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