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“I don’t do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision”
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“Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“The punishment of desire is the agony of unfulfillment”
― Poimandres
― Poimandres
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― The Canterville Ghost
― The Canterville Ghost
Aisling’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Aisling’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,686 books
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169 friends
415 books
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8 friends
784 books
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1,711 friends
338 books
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4 friends
32 books
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79 friends
474 books
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45 friends
599 books
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888 friends
1 book
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5 friends
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