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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as surprised-by-joy)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,726 ratings — published 1955
Still Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as surprised-by-joy)
avg rating 3.91 — 430 ratings — published 2015
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as surprised-by-joy)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,915 ratings — published 1861
“In the first place he made short work of what I have called my 'chronological snobbery,' the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.”
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“I was beginning to try to have it both ways: to get the comforts of both a materialist and of a spiritual philosophy without the rigours of either.”
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