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“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. Indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defenselessness, destitution. A squalid bargain: human soul for a hunk of bread. Poverty offers and society accepts.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“In becoming dirt, she has been turned to stone. To touch her is to feel a chill.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
Devon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Devon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
776 books
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63 friends
464 books
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229 books
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33 books
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156 friends
374 books
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162 friends
208 books
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39 friends
59 books
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