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“It’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.”
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“In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.”
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“The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding
their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce
some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.”
― Liquid Modernity
their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce
some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.”
― Liquid Modernity
“Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“En otras palabras, el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso de participar en la construcción de esas cosas. El amor está muy cercano a la trascendencia; es tan sólo otro nombre de impulso creativo, y por lo tanto, está cargado de riesgos, ya que toda creación ignora siempre cuál será su producto final”
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Amaranta’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amaranta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
7,293 books
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1,824 friends
5,763 books
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4,788 friends
152 books
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1,181 friends
334 books
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1,937 friends
3 books
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26 friends
261 books
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24 friends
92 books
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4 friends
0 books
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21 friends
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