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“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
― Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
― Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
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