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Dan is Currently Reading

Dan is currently reading

The Proper Study of Mankind

by Isaiah Berlin

bookshelves: collections, high-rating, non-fiction, archiv-org-removed, not-free, currently-reading

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Dec 30, 2025 06:25PM

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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

by Elizabeth Strout (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 22, 2025 12:16PM

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Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World

by Donald R. Howard

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Oct 28, 2025 10:13PM

“Men try to do battle with error, but when the fight is over they have the uncomfortable feeling that the human soul is more at home with illusion than with truth and that they ought to admit it.”
― Paul Hazard, paraphrasing Pierre Bayle in "The Crisis of the European Mind 1680-1715"

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“...faith draws its fanatical power from the fact that it is not knowledge: it is blind, passionate, stubborn, and stupid; what it puts forward is done unconditionally, against reason, against history, against all refutation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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