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“Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.”
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“The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.”
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“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
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“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.”
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“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
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[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
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Melanie’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Melanie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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203 friends
398 books
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41 friends
1,367 books
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175 friends
76 books
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57 friends
2,861 books
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1,121 friends
5,336 books
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1,099 friends
5 books
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250 friends
258 books
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183 friends
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