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"'Dedicated to people who used to think they hated the place where they grew up, and then took a second look'" — Feb 06, 2025 07:14AM
"'Dedicated to people who used to think they hated the place where they grew up, and then took a second look'" — Feb 06, 2025 07:14AM
The Prestige
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Magic is illusion, a temporary suspension of reality for the benefit and amusement of an audience. What right had I (or he, when he took his turn) to destroy that illusion?
“He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“Observe, in short, how transient and trivial is all mortal life; yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a handful of spice or ashes. Spend, therefore, these fleeting moments of earth as Nature would have you spend them, and then go to your rest with a good grace, as an olive falls in its season, with a blessing for the earth.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
Jack’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jack’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
153 books
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16 friends
293 books
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427 books
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2 friends
415 books
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26 friends
84 books
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12 friends
1,794 books
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137 friends
293 books
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19 friends
75 books
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7 friends
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