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“رأسي مكتظ ، ممتلئ إلى حافته بالأفكار ، و استطيع أن أحس بنبضه و اختلاجاته . أنا لا أهدف إلى أن أكون شيئا غير عادي ، و لا أتوقع أن أخلق إحدي الروائع ، كل ما أريده هو أن أعيش ، و أحلم ، و أتطلع ، و لا يفوتني شئ .. الحياة يا صديقى العزيز ، قصيرة جدا ، و يجب أن نستغلها بأقصي ما نستطيع”
― Three Years
― Three Years
“Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfil the way that is in you.”
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“You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.”
― About Love and Other Stories
― About Love and Other Stories
“There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.”
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“We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.”
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Mariam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mariam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Children's, Comics, Cookbooks, Crime, Fiction, Manga, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, and Spirituality
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