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He had the intelligent man’s faith in the weight of his own ideas, and the emotional man’s impatience with anyone who did not share them.
“...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand...”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
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Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
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