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“To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.”
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“Il vecchio mondo sta morendo. Quello nuovo tarda a comparire. E in questo chiaroscuro nascono i mostri.”
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“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
― The Passage of Power
― The Passage of Power
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
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“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”
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Mishel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mishel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,675 books
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1,499 friends
648 books
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13 friends
202 books
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12 friends
207 books
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12 friends
25 books
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1 friend
140 books
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1 friend
366 books
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17 friends
674 books
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18 friends
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