“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
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“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they’ll never sit in.”
― The Fifth Science
― The Fifth Science
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“It's funny, you don't convince the living to behave in a proper way; you just wait for them to die and hope their children grow up a little kinder and wiser than their parents.”
― The Fifth Science
― The Fifth Science
Lamp’s 2025 Year in Books
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