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“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
― Candide
― Candide
“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“In his last years Linacre gave up medicine for the Church and then for the first time read the gospels. On so doing he exclaimed, 'Either this is not the gospel or we are not Christians.”
― Erasmus of Christendom
― Erasmus of Christendom
“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“But, then, you were born a pagan; I am trying laboriously to make myself one. I can take nothing for granted, I can enjoy nothing as it comes along. Beauty, pleasure, art, women - I have to invent an excuse, a justification for everything that's delightful. Otherwise I can't enjoy it with an easy conscience.”
― Crome Yellow
― Crome Yellow
Caleb’s 2025 Year in Books
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