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“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
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“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”
― Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations
― Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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Mckenna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mckenna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
941 books
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36 friends
539 books
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44 friends
146 books
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68 friends
553 books
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32 friends
32 books
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44 friends
250 books
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91 friends
89 books
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35 friends
437 books
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100 friends
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