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This was the secret I learned that day: None of them want to be saved. They all want to sink backward toward the earth again, to be swallowed by the ground, to keep sleeping. There is hatred on their faces when they are roused from the
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“The hardest dream of all is the dream of not being tormented by our unlived dreams. To cope with and accept unfulfillment as a natural human condition. To be complete in our incompleteness. To be free from the shackles of memory, and ambition, to be free from comparison to other people and other hypothetical selves, and to meet the moment without any other agenda, to exist as freely as time itself.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“If we demand the future be free from suffering in order to be happy; we can't be happy.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“To know which path to take, it helps to take a few wrong ones.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“I used to worry about fitting in until I realized the reason I didn't fit in was because I didn't want to.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
“The present is known. The future is unknown. The present is solid. The future is abstract. Ruining the present by worrying about the future is like burning your most treasured possession simply because you might one day lose other possessions that you don't own yet.”
― The Comfort Book
― The Comfort Book
Carmen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carmen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,748 books
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210 friends
97 books
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8 friends
178 books
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866 friends
498 books
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3,958 friends
537 books
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18 friends
116 books
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2 friends
128 books
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115 friends
0 books
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22 friends
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