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“We'll always have Paris.”
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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
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“I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.”
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“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Angels & Demons
― Angels & Demons
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.”
― Civilisation
― Civilisation
Pieter’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Pieter’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Business, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, and Politics
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