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“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible.”
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but exhaust the limits of the possible.”
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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
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“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
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Derek’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Derek’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
7 books
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13 friends
122 books
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17 friends
746 books
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19 friends
1,155 books
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99 friends
2 books
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37 friends
55 books
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26 friends
0 books
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18 friends
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