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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Blue-Eyed Devil
― Blue-Eyed Devil
“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
“So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder…”
― Sophie’s World
― Sophie’s World
Gabriel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gabriel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
476 books
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166 friends
1,077 books
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169 friends
167 books
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260 friends
489 books
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45 friends
43 books
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106 friends
494 books
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94 friends
156 books
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38 friends
1,076 books
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80 friends
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Adult Fiction, Art, Classics, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Manga, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, and War
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