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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?
“I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“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
“Don’t we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.”
― 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
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.”
― To the Lighthouse
and changing leaves.”
― To the Lighthouse
Jack’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jack’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
149 books
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16 friends
289 books
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17 friends
1,787 books
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132 friends
288 books
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20 friends
75 books
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7 friends
378 books
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19 friends
404 books
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2 friends
130 books
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15 friends
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