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“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.”
― State of Wonder
― State of Wonder
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
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Sharon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sharon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
874 books
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167 friends
173 books
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47 friends
359 books
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204 friends
189 books
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58 friends
45 books
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15 friends
441 books
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87 friends
8 books
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215 friends
1 book
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35 friends
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