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“We think we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers, yet we possess only metaphors of the things, which in no way correspond to the original essences. Just”
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
“We work only with things that don’t exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, units of time, units of space—how is explanation even possible if we begin by making everything into an image, our image! It”
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
― On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception
Mina’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mina’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
508 books
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45 friends
2,000 books
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408 friends
946 books
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254 friends
2,233 books
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368 friends
631 books
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519 friends
1,395 books
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141 friends
1,075 books
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558 friends
536 books
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99 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Spirituality, and Travel
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