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“(People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist most fiercely within themselves.)”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“Reproduction as raison d’être has always seemed to me to beg the whole question of existence. If the ultimate purpose of your life is your children, what’s the purpose of your children’s lives? To have your grandchildren? Isn’t anyone’s life ultimately meaningful in itself?”
― Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
― Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
“Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same thing in middle age just makes you nervous, not with vague puritan guilt but the more urgent worry that you're running out of time, a deadline you can feel in your cells.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
“You can’t feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life any more than you can stay passionately in love forever—or grieve forever, for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busywork of living.”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“At such times we are certainly not at our best but we are undeniably at our most human—utterly vulnerable, naked and laid open, a mess. Whenever”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
Samavia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Samavia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
816 books
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66 friends
66 books
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8 friends
2,133 books
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2,018 friends
1,153 books
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105 friends
1,671 books
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3,865 friends
105 books
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68 friends
16 books
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45 friends
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17 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Suspense, and Thriller
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