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“We are all such escape artists, you and I. We don’t like to get too serious about things, especially about ourselves. When we are with other people, we are apt to talk about almost anything under the sun except for what really matters to us, except for our own lives, except for what is going on inside our own skins. We pass the time of day. We chatter. We hold each other at bay, keep our distance from each other even when God knows it is precisely each other that we desperately need.”
― A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
― A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”
― Why Marx Was Right
― Why Marx Was Right
“You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: “Who can take away suffering without entering it?”
― The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
― The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
Mary’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
512 books
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113 friends
1,101 books
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67 friends
235 books
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65 friends
770 books
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49 friends
631 books
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69 friends
270 books
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58 friends
34 books
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35 friends
66 books
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132 friends
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