“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
Eman’s 2025 Year in Books
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