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“The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. Indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
Akiko’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Akiko’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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5 friends
420 books
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1 book
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3 books
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18 friends
1,108 books
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891 books
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33 books
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79 friends
48 books
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