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“Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.”
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“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
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“everybody has a story to tell”
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“You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.”
― The Abolition of Work and Other Essays
― The Abolition of Work and Other Essays
“beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world”
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beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world”
―
Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,735 books
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89 friends
419 books
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118 friends
884 books
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165 friends
128 books
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52 friends
339 books
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67 friends
365 books
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117 friends
419 books
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19 friends
18 books
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24 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Comics, Graphic novels, History, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science, and Spirituality
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