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What’s different now from 1804 or 1904 is that tuberculosis is curable, and has been since the mid-1950s. We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis. But we choose not to live in that world.
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Someone Like You
― Someone Like You
“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
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“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Justine’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Justine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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92 friends
6,213 books
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507 friends
4,175 books
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645 friends
465 books
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79 friends
1,351 books
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131 friends
3,983 books
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240 friends
896 books
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200 friends
771 books
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271 friends
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