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Jonathan Stroud
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“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.”
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“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
Jonathan’s 2025 Year in Books
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103 books
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3,423 books
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2,546 books
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170 books
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169 friends
779 books
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124 friends
562 books
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103 friends
1,319 books
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263 friends
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