Joel
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“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
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