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“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Marianne, he said, I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“In peace, may you leave this shore. In love, may you find the next. Safe passage on your travels, until our final journey to the ground. May we meet again.”
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“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Bárbara’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Bárbara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
443 books
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398 friends
411 books
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33 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller
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