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“Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
“When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols...”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
Alice’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alice’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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70 friends
717 books
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512 books
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480 books
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504 books
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103 friends
517 books
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997 books
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46 friends
748 books
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69 friends
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