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“What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.”
― The Well of Loneliness
― The Well of Loneliness
“Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for a long time, we people space with phantoms.”
― The Horla
― The Horla
“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
― Uneasy Money
― Uneasy Money
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
― The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
― The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
305 books
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9 friends
271 books
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39 friends
248 books
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23 friends
116 books
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17 friends
21 books
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3 friends
37 books
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13 friends
1 book
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1 friend
1 book
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3 friends
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