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“Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Love...no such thing.
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“I'm a cynical idealist.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
Katte’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katte’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
185 books
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41 friends
224 books
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72 friends
26 books
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51 friends
82 books
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55 friends
236 books
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98 friends
3 books
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74 friends
64 books
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116 friends
15 books
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33 friends
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