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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
― Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.”
― August: Osage County
― August: Osage County
“Life is not a symbol, is not one riddle and one failure to guess it, is not to inhabit one face alone or to be given up after one losing throw of the dice; but is to be, however inadequately, emptily, hopelessly into the city’s iron heart, endured. And out again, upon the unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea.”
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Tanvi’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tanvi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
710 books
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3 friends
758 books
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78 friends
211 books
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163 books
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73 books
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22 books
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69 friends
56 books
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78 friends
6 books
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54 friends
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