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Max Cannon said:
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Less profound than simply honest. Seemingly this is an autobiography of sorts for Tolstoy to exercise his fear of death? or perhaps a kind of confession over his less than satisfying marriage and life?
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“Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.”
― Notas: Unzeitgemäße Gedanken
― Notas: Unzeitgemäße Gedanken
“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
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“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”
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Max Cannon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Max Cannon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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443 books
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79 books
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69 books
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301 books
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306 books
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112 books
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