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In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
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“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”
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“I was early taught to work as well as play,
My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play-
I dropped the worry on the way-
And God was good to me every day.”
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My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play-
I dropped the worry on the way-
And God was good to me every day.”
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“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.”
― A High Wind in Jamaica
― A High Wind in Jamaica
Julie’s 2025 Year in Books
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