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“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“Wholeness, she had learned, was not the absence of pain but the ability to hold it”
― The Sword of Kaigen
― The Sword of Kaigen
“It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be otherwise; that there was no escape for you; that you never could become a different man; that even if time and faith were still left you to change into something different you would most likely not wish to change; or if you did wish to, even then you would do nothing; because perhaps in reality there was nothing for you to change into.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
Kren’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kren’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
399 books
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27 friends
966 books
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28 friends
131 books
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27 friends
348 books
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181 friends
1,521 books
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54 friends
692 books
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22 friends
169 books
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48 friends
400 books
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90 friends
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