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Rachael
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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“It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
Rachael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rachael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
365 books
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45 friends
893 books
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29 friends
27 books
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26 friends
10 books
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73 friends
10 books
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273 friends
3 books
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55 friends
16 books
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59 friends
70 books
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77 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, and Spirituality
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