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“In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.”
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“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”
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“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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“Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.”
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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Edvard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Edvard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
525 books
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54 friends
331 books
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52 friends
727 books
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95 friends
961 books
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42 friends
157 books
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14 friends
73 books
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20 friends
235 books
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11 friends
261 books
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44 friends
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