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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.”
― Utilitarianism
― Utilitarianism
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space."
"Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?”
― A Wrinkle in Time
"Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?”
― A Wrinkle in Time
Basmah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Basmah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
420 books
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109 friends
323 books
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62 friends
206 books
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105 friends
1,571 books
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73 friends
367 books
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112 friends
1,159 books
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93 friends
839 books
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16 friends
499 books
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80 friends
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