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“The thrust here is that Dostoevsky wrote fiction about the stuff that's really important. He wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever reducing his characters to mouthpieces or his books to tracts. His concern was always what it is to be a human being-that is, how to be an actual person, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal.”
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
“What kind of bodies are movable and feasts. What color are visions.”
― There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
― There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“The freedom I want is located in a world where we wouldn't need to love women, or even monitor our feelings about women as meaningful—in which we wouldn't need to parse the contours of female worth and liberation by paying meticulous personal attention to any of this at all.”
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Cosmos
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Cosmos
Pe’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Pe’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,192 books
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154 friends
405 books
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319 friends
163 books
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147 friends
51 books
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65 friends
38 books
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4 friends
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, and Young-adult
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