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The question, of course, as with Adam and Eve in the garden, is not about Abel’s physical location, but is an invitation to self-awareness and confession of wrongdoing.
“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
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“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― What's Wrong with the World
― What's Wrong with the World
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
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348 books
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545 friends
957 books
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835 friends
275 books
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136 books
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88 friends
1,080 books
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410 friends
239 books
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245 friends
90 books
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70 friends
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