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“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
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“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self Reliance
― Self Reliance
“Whatever gets you through the night”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
Allen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Allen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,490 books
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121 friends
1,115 books
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52 friends
2,128 books
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28 friends
12,375 books
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27 friends
911 books
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48 friends
713 books
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124 friends
142 books
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8 friends
863 books
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49 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Ebooks, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Poetry, and War
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