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James Mattison
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“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
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“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”
― The Course of Love
― The Course of Love
“In reading, friendship is suddenly brought back to its original purity. There is no false amiability with books. If we spend the evening with these friends, it is because we genuinely want to.”
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
“The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or those who never allow us to kiss them (we soon forget them), but those who know how to carefully administer varied doses of hope and despair.”
― On Love
― On Love
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”
― On Love
― On Love
2020 book challenge by Agii
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— last activity Oct 27, 2019 11:10PM
Welcoming anyone who`s willing to read a book according to the appointed genre monthly and exchange opinions, ideas and inspirations to this small boo ...more
James’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
100 books
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27 friends
9 books
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4 friends
85 books
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5 friends
371 books
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10 friends
378 books
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203 friends
105 books
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4 friends
69 books
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20 friends
1 book
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27 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Self help, Spirituality, and Travel
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