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“the curious suggestion, in the term “life hack,” that your life is best thought of as some kind of faulty contraption, in need of modification so as to stop it from performing suboptimally.)”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“What can I do with happiness? What can I do with this strange and piercing peace, which is already starting to hurt me like an anguish, like a great silence of spaces? To whom can I give my happiness, which is already starting to scratch me a bit and scares me. No, I don’t want to be happy. I prefer mediocrity. Ah, thousands of people don’t have the nerve to linger a while longer in this unknown thing which is feeling happy and they prefer mediocrity.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“The beautiful thing about science is that we do not know what we cannot know and we will not know until we know. It requires an incredible amount of humility to be willing to be wrong nearly all the time. But we have to be willing to be wrong, and proven wrong, in order to increase knowledge overall. It is a thankless, and essential, job.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.”
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“She said to me, I should’ve not lost so much time being afraid of her dying. But that’s normal, I told her. It’s difficult to lose your friend. Everybody gets afraid. We should be more like the animals, she said. The animals don’t think of the future or the past; they pay attention to what is happening in the present. It is enough to sit with a person. To brush the hair. To massage the feet. To bring them what they need. We can’t fight what we can’t control. She said she missed her.”
― How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
― How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Eka’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Eka’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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107 friends
876 books
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208 books
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181 books
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135 books
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151 books
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144 books
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11 books
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