"I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

I'm Philippa, 24, and I'm from London.

~ Tuesday, July 19 ~
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“ Those who pay the costs are rarely those who reap the benefits.
— E. H. Carr, in his series of lectures collected under the title What is History?
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~ Saturday, July 16 ~
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Mr Roth and I have a bit of a love/hate relationship. Hate in that I really really don’t like his writing and love in that he loves being relevant to my chosen topics of study. Saying that, The Plot Against America is the best book I’ve read of his so far.

Mr Roth and I have a bit of a love/hate relationship. Hate in that I really really don’t like his writing and love in that he loves being relevant to my chosen topics of study. Saying that, The Plot Against America is the best book I’ve read of his so far.

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~ Wednesday, April 20 ~
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I am very much looking forward to reading this one. Somebody had it with them in the British Library the other day, and as people tend to only take in what they need for study in the reading rooms, I’m hoping that this person is writing and researching something to do with this book/one or more of its writers!

I am very much looking forward to reading this one.

Somebody had it with them in the British Library the other day, and as people tend to only take in what they need for study in the reading rooms, I’m hoping that this person is writing and researching something to do with this book/one or more of its writers!

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