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Robert Graves’s poem praises the fictive Alice for her “uncommon sense,” being “of a speculative bent,” in accepting her adventures in her chance-discovered land as being
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“There is no perfection only life”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Grace’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Grace’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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14 friends
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59 books
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22 books
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1 book
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35 friends
1 book
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29 friends
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