“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”
― Island
― Island
“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
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“The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...”
― Island
― Island
Jack’s 2025 Year in Books
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