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“People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”
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“A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”
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“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
Tinka’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tinka’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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29 friends
72 books
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37 friends
178 books
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24 friends
1 book
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116 friends
539 books
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11 friends
854 books
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197 friends
2,762 books
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803 friends
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