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“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”
― Freedom
― Freedom
“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”
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“This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.”
― Freedom
― Freedom
“Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.”
― Farther Away
― Farther Away
Sasmit’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sasmit’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
238 books
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182 friends
250 books
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165 friends
626 books
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137 friends
45 books
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28 friends
1 book
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66 friends
2 books
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105 friends
2 books
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153 friends
1 book
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90 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Crime, Fiction, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult
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