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He’s the first person who affirms that feeling depressed and adrift is a rational response to living in Paris. ‘Imagine dying and being grateful you’d gone to heaven, until one day (or one century) it dawned on you that your main mood was
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“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“In the superficial activity of her life, she was all English. She even thought in English. But her long blanks and darkness of abstraction were Polish.”
― The Rainbow
― The Rainbow
“We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness. It’s as if we were working together on the same statue, cutting it out of each other’s misery. But I don’t even know the design.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“You take a different view of your actions when you come to understand, when you are made to understand every day that your existence is necessary - you see, absolutely necessary - to another person.”
― Lord Jim
― Lord Jim
“Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
Ada’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ada’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Book Club, Business, Classics, Fiction, Food, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Self help, and Spirituality
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