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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
― The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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Shaun’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shaun’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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17 friends
1,651 books
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762 books
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103 books
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4,154 books
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3,783 books
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5,584 books
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529 books
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