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“There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.”
― Life, the Universe and Everything
― Life, the Universe and Everything
“To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“We can’t win against obsession. They care, we don’t. They win.”
― Life, the Universe, and Everything
― Life, the Universe, and Everything
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
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It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
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“It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only themselves. It is not the helpless, subject to terror, who initiate terror, but the violent, who with their power create the concrete situation which begets the 'rejects of life.' It is not the tyrannized who initiate despotism, but the tyrants. It is not those whose humanity is denied them who negate humankind, but those who denied that humanity (thus negating their own as well). Force is used not by those who have become weak under the preponderance of the strong, but by the strong who have emasculated them.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Luc’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Luc’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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70 friends
142 books
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415 books
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388 books
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383 books
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130 books
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12 friends
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