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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing”
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“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
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“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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Abd’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Abd’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
152 books
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62 friends
509 books
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60 friends
261 books
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226 friends
34 books
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514 friends
332 books
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111 friends
399 books
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140 friends
1,002 books
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738 friends
2 books
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108 friends
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