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“I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”
― American Psycho
― American Psycho
“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...”
― Season of Migration to the North
― Season of Migration to the North
“All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.”
― Experience and Education
― Experience and Education
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap... Now there are times when a whole generation is caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand itself and has no standard, no security, no simple acquiescence. Naturally, every one does not feel this equally strongly.”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
Raphael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Raphael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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44 friends
651 books
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115 friends
4,188 books
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2,441 friends
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662 books
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1,813 books
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98 friends
731 books
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97 friends
1,678 books
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3,978 friends
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