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“The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.”
― The Education of Henry Adams
― The Education of Henry Adams
“So Henry Adams, well aware that he could not succeed as a scholar, and finding his social position beyond improvement or need of effort, betook himself to the single ambition which otherwise would scarcely have seemed a true outcome of the college, though it was the last remnant of the old Unitarian supremacy. He took to the pen. He wrote.”
― The Education of Henry Adams
― The Education of Henry Adams
“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
― One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.”
― Adam Bede
― Adam Bede
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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Camille’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Camille’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,512 books
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25 friends
396 books
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18 friends
159 books
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47 friends
226 books
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10 friends
243 books
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111 friends
277 books
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26 friends
59 books
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44 friends
123 books
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10 friends
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