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“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
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“Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
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“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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Cindy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cindy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Business, Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, Self help, and Young-adult
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