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Katie Saffren said:
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reread. chock-full of toxic characters and their toxic relationships. a classic for a reason but doesn’t quite do it for me.
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“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
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some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
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“The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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238 books
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163 books
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219 books
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944 books
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390 books
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583 books
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741 books
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