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David
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“I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.”
― The Blind Owl
― The Blind Owl
“My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself”
― The Blind Owl
― The Blind Owl
“I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
David’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
192 books
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4 friends
86 books
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1 friend
586 books
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3 friends
448 books
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1 friend
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