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The contradictory state of longing for intimacy but also wanting to keep others at arm’s length is called the hedgehog’s dilemma.
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“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“For you, a thousand times over”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.”
― The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
― The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Ender's Game
― Ender's Game
“Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface? Both the ocean and the iceberg are made of the same material. That the iceberg seems separate is only because it is in a different form. In reality, it is but a part of the vast ocean.…”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
Iris’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Iris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,051 books
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91 friends
179 books
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27 friends
671 books
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25 friends
524 books
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35 friends
1,173 books
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338 friends
290 books
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199 friends
670 books
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50 friends
683 books
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31 friends
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