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“Writing poetry is not at all easy!” retorted Juan, firing up. “Sometimes you can fret and sweat and frown, and feel as if you were pushing your whole soul out of your body, and yet hardly one line comes as it ought.”
“Our envy of others devours us most of all.”
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“Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.”
― Lilith
― Lilith
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
― All the Trouble in the World
― All the Trouble in the World
“Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.”
― The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
― The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
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Susannah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Susannah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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64 friends
1,420 books
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1,802 friends
499 books
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135 friends
719 books
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306 friends
5,644 books
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188 friends
1,076 books
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85 friends
501 books
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42 friends
694 books
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143 friends
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