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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Make a place available to the eyes, and in certain ways it is no longer available to the imagination.”
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“A point in space may be found, they say, only by means of intersecting coordinates. But should those coordinates come apart, then... space is vast, while a point has no size at all. Evidently my coordinates had come apart, and to find me, a psychic point in infinity, turned out to be impossible”
― Autobiography of a Corpse
― Autobiography of a Corpse
Cross Atlantic Book Club
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Maddie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maddie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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