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The Years
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There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves. We’re only just beginning, she thought, to understand, here and there.
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“There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.”
― The Years
― The Years
“Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?â€� He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,â€� he added in the same undertone.”
― The Years
― The Years
Reading Progress
July 30, 2013
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July 30, 2013
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October 17, 2015
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October 21, 2015
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11.94%
"Words went on repeating themselves in her mind—words and sights."
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October 24, 2015
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12.61%
"That was the worst [...], she thought; they couldn’t share things as they used to share them."
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October 24, 2015
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13.06%
"She stood at the window looking up the street.There had been a shower of rain. The street was wet; the roofs were shining. Dark clouds were moving across the sky; the branches were tossing up and down in the light of the street lamps. Something in her was tossing up and down too."
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November 15, 2015
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46.17%
"Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?� […] “But it won’t—that’s the devil,"
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November 19, 2015
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48.87%
"Why? she asked herself, looking at the lovely face, empty of meaning, or character, like a page on which nothing has been written but youth."
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217
December 10, 2015
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December 10, 2015
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Finished Reading
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Dec 24, 2020 05:49AM
So true, Edita!
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Hanneke wrote: "So true, Edita!""But how did they compose what people called a life?"
