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“Although “The Myth of Sisyphus” poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“If only one’s eyes weren’t visible to others, she thinks. If only one could hide one’s eyes from the world.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
“Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance, no more real than a television drama. Death, who now stood by her side, was as familiar to her as a family member, missing for a long time but now returned.”
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“Do you ever wonder at the strangeness of it?
That our bodies have eyelids and lips,
that they can at times be made to close from the outside,
and at other times to lock fast from within.”
― Greek Lessons
That our bodies have eyelids and lips,
that they can at times be made to close from the outside,
and at other times to lock fast from within.”
― Greek Lessons
“Only Yeong-hye, docile and naive, had been unable to deflect their father's temper or put up any form of resistance. Instead, she had merely absorbed all her suffering inside her, deep into the marrow of her bones. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, In-hye could see that the role that she had adopted back then of the hard-working, self-sacrificing eldest daughter had been a sign not of maturity but of cowardice. It had been a survival tactic.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
Lander’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lander’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
266 books
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63 friends
200 books
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216 books
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727 books
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166 friends
379 books
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127 books
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83 books
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40 friends
507 books
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86 friends
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