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Tim Goebel
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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
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“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
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“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."
("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
― Paris Spleen
("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
― Paris Spleen
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
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Tim’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Comics, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Literary Fiction, Manga, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Philosophy, Film, Television, Radio, Theater, Magic, Showbiz, Pop Culture, Occult, Books, Writing, Libraries, Reading, Politics, Social Issues, Social Media, biography-memoir, autobiography, christianity, theology, church-history, medieval, american-civil-war, historical-mystery, the-1700s, victorian, world-war-i, world-war-ii, sequential-art, comic-strips, ghost-stories, gothic-horror, lovecraftian, cthulhu-mythos, amateur-sleuth, cozy-mystery, detective, golden-age-mystery, hard-boiled, murder-mystery, noir, paranormal-mystery, whodunit, folklore, urban-legends, how-to, law, classical-music, jazz, musicals, musicians, rock-n-roll, research, trivia, personal-development, games, game-design, chess, gamebooks, choose-your-own-adventure, gaming, gaming-fiction, role-playing-games, dungeons-and-dragons, forgotten-realms, world-of-darkness, video-games, alternate-history, time-travel, weird-west, dark-fantasy, occult-detective, goth, heroic-fantasy, epic-fantasy, low-fantasy, mythology, arthurian, gods, greek-mythology, demons, fairies, ghosts, vampires, and vampire-hunters
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