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“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
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succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
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“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”
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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
Ophelia’s 2024 Year in Books
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Favorite Genres
Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Poetry, Romance, Young-adult, War, epic-fantasy, world-war-ii, marvel, urban-fantasy, high-fantasy, fairy-tale-retellings, young-adult-fantasy, magic, medieval, folklore, mythology, american-history, american, southern, pirates, middle-ages, heroic-fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, dark-fantasy, russia, european-literature, fairy-tales, epic-poetry, ancient-history, ancient, historical, russian-literature, victorian, edwardian, russian-history, espionage, and spy-thriller
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