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Anne is 40% done

"The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us."

It feels like things are either always grand or awful in our head. In reality, they are simply mediocre or average at best. So what am I afraid of?

— Jul 21, 2023 05:01AM

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Anne’s Previous Updates

Anne is 93% done

"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power."

— Sep 10, 2023 06:37PM

Anne is 90% done

A lot going on at the moment.

— Sep 10, 2023 04:58AM

Anne is 76% done

People are so addicted to the things or people that destroy them.

— Sep 06, 2023 01:48AM

Anne is 73% done

"History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow."

— Sep 05, 2023 08:25PM

Anne is 72% done

"Is it better to shout and thereby hasten the end, or to keep silent and gain thereby a slower death?"

— Sep 05, 2023 08:20PM

Anne is 65% done

"So it was a desire not for pleasure (the pleasure came as an extra, a bonus) but for possession of the world (slitting open the outstretched body of the world with his scalpel) that sent him in pursuit of women."

Yeah, what?

— Sep 05, 2023 12:40AM

Anne is 64% done

It's taking me so long to finish this book. It's embarrassing.

— Sep 05, 2023 12:36AM

Anne is 38% done

All I'm getting so far is that humans have this insatiable and subconscious desire to fall and betray.

— Jul 20, 2023 11:10PM

Anne is 37% done

"Love means renouncing strength."

— Jul 19, 2023 01:32AM

Anne is 30% done

"Fidelity gave a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions."