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As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to
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“I felt a surge of grief, I, who had never known men, as I stood in front of this man who had wanted to overcome fear and despair to enter eternity upright and furious.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“The blind must rely on the feeble light of fingertips and the painful shape of a cracked shin.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Treason is too narrowly defined to suit us. Our courts call it treason when a restaurant-keeper helps a German flier to escape, but nobody calls it treason when a congressman helps a touchy issue to escape "until after the elections are over." We hang a man for the first kind of treason; we reelect a man for the second.”
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“Slowly but surely, I grew more and more disoriented, increasingly more detached from the world, something sad and awful straining around the edges of my mouth, surfacing in my eyes.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“But I saw a strange glimmer everywhere, confined to the sharp oscillations of yellow & blue, as if my retinal view suddenly included along with those reflective blessings of light, an unearthly collusion with scent & sound, registering all possibilities of harm, every threat, every move, even with all that grinning and meeting and din. A thousand and one possible claws.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
Keely’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Keely’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
85 books
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13 friends
7,369 books
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156 friends
255 books
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18 friends
83 books
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26 friends
179 books
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12 friends
229 books
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24 friends
157 books
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7 friends
92 books
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5 friends
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