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“I like to imagine that Adam's tongue, his palate and his lips were always on fire, that the air he breathed was kindled to incandescence each time he cried out in sorrow or delight. If fiction can be said to have a function, it is to release that primary fury of which language, even now, is miraculously capable - from the dry mud of daily use. So that furred, spotted and striped, it may - as it did in Eden - scrawl under every tree as revelation.”
― The Jade Cabinet
― The Jade Cabinet
“All things pass, all things, that is, but mystery.”
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“The Beautiful is always strange.”
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“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”
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“The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.”
― Netsuke
― Netsuke
Laura’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Laura’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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89 friends
4,976 books
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191 friends
841 books
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251 friends
1,145 books
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230 friends
751 books
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35 friends
71 books
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454 friends
746 books
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338 friends
345 books
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183 friends
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