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“Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?”
― Drinking: A Love Story
― Drinking: A Love Story
“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.”
― Embroideries
― Embroideries
“You haven't loved yet," he said. "You've only been trying to love; beginning to love. Trust alone is not love, illusion is not love, desire alone is not love. All these were paths leading you out of yourself, it is true, and so you thought they led to another, but you never reached the other. You were only on the way.”
― A Spy in the House of Love
― A Spy in the House of Love
Dea ’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Dea ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
630 books
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46 friends
111 books
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24 friends
144 books
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6 friends
11 books
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1 friend
65 books
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1 friend
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