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Benjamin’s 2024 Year in Books
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Benjamin Mester
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Thoreau, Jesus, Rumi, CS Lewis, Tolkien, Sara Teasdale, Jane Austen
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| Great book. Long but well paced. Was a somewhat abrupt ending, especially for such a long buildup. This is a good book for someone starting off in the classics. It will keep you entertained and give you a good sense of the history of Europe at that t ...more | |
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"Didn’t finish. The series was good, especially for an author just starting out, but didn’t keep me interested."
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| Obviously a highly talented poet, but I didn't connect with too much of his work. Ozymandias is arguably the greatest poem of all time, but overall, this is a hard read to get through. ...more | |
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...”
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“Every time that love has made me weep,
I have rejoiced that love could be so strong.”
― Love Songs & Rivers to the Sea
I have rejoiced that love could be so strong.”
― Love Songs & Rivers to the Sea
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. As if one were to wear any sort of coat which the tailor might cut out for him, or gradually leaving off palm-leaf hat or cap of woodchuck skin, complain of hard times because he could not afford to buy him a crown! It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have, which yet all would admit that man could not afford to pay for. Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes be content with less?”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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