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Tarvo Varres
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“I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.”
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
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“It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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Philosophy
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This is the group is intended for anyone interested in philosophy. It is just starting, but when I searched the public groups, I didn't find anything ...more
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Borges, of all the authors, does not yet have a group on Goodreads. What? He does. Now.
Tarvo’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tarvo’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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