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“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
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“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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Pranay’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Pranay’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
119 books
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55 friends
614 books
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57 friends
0 books
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27 friends
3 books
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46 friends
2 books
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25 friends
4 books
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72 friends
3 books
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1 book
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53 friends
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