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“It seemed very remarkable that you could travel halfway around the world and still end up looking at some ducks.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.”
― Courtship Rite
― Courtship Rite
“But to me it seemed that one had always been midway the journey of our life, and would be maybe right up until the moment of death. •”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Like all the stories I wrote at that time, it was based on an unusual atmosphere that had impressed me in real life. I thought that was the point of writing stories: to make up a chain of events that would somehow account for a certain mood—for how it came about and for what it led to.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted to know why Anna had to die, and instead they told you that 19th century Russian landowners felt conflicted about whether they were really a part of Europe. The implication was that it was somehow naive to want to talk about anything interesting, or to think that you would ever know anything important.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
Katharine’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katharine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
864 books
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455 friends
1,304 books
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200 friends
5,842 books
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2,949 friends
276 books
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111 friends
501 books
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8 friends
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