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books i read so far this year

How To Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracián

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I Hate and I Love by Catallus

Light by Rob Cham

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Why I Am So Clever by Friedrich Nietzsche

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“There is so much I cannot say. Will you remember my silence better than my words?”

— Lucrezia

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I do not want in the slightest that anything should become other than it is; I do not want myself to become other than I am . . . But that is how I have always lived. I have harbored no desire.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Clever

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"Attention is the beginning of devotion."

Mary Oliver

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oh how i long to be yearned for

oh to experience this someday

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"I sit with my grief. I mother it. I hold its small, hot hand. I don’t say, shhh. I don’t say, it is okay. I wait until it is done having feelings. Then we stand and we go wash the dishes. We crack open bedroom doors, step over the creaks, and kiss the children. We are sore from this grief, like we’ve returned from a run, like we are training for a marathon. I’m with you all the way, says my grief, whispering, and then we splash our face with water and stretch, one big shadow and one small."

– Callista Buchen