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“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
― The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
― The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
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“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
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“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
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“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
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Jake’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jake’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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