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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.”
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“Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see”
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“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
― Either - Or
― Either - Or
Peter’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Peter’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
948 books
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90 friends
231 books
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168 friends
530 books
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44 friends
185 books
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62 friends
198 books
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2,775 friends
196 books
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21 friends
396 books
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119 friends
416 books
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103 friends
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