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“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
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“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
― Eloisa to Abelard
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
― Eloisa to Abelard
“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
― Les Essais
― Les Essais
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― To Jerusalem and Back
― To Jerusalem and Back
“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
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Ali’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ali’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
46 books
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1,199 friends
41 books
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169 friends
20 books
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771 friends
0 books
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229 friends
39 books
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448 friends
8 books
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220 friends
6 books
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322 friends
43 books
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223 friends
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