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“The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.”
― Immortality
― Immortality
“...how time first grounds us and then confounds us....give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.”
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“Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Yashna’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Yashna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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140 friends
580 books
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180 friends
36 books
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84 friends
268 books
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27 friends
899 books
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393 friends
306 books
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185 friends
226 books
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170 friends
122 books
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68 friends
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