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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
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“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.”
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Alex’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alex’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
803 books
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227 friends
417 books
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1,288 books
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1,920 books
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926 books
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241 friends
271 books
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951 books
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46 friends
2,188 books
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127 friends
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