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“So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.”
― Matterhorn
― Matterhorn
“Being human was the best he could do. Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans were responsible for it all.”
― Matterhorn
― Matterhorn
“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
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“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
Bob’s 2025 Year in Books
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