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“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Matter and Memory
― Matter and Memory
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted."
Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.”
― The Age of Innocence
Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.”
― The Age of Innocence
Phoebe’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Phoebe’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
712 books
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339 friends
671 books
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26 friends
599 books
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132 friends
401 books
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10 friends
291 books
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83 friends
1,140 books
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64 friends
158 books
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32 friends
455 books
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16 friends
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