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"I've actually been listening to this as a book on tape off and on for about a year, I just forgot to put it in my "currently reading" and finished it this week!" — Jan 11, 2026 02:04PM
"I've actually been listening to this as a book on tape off and on for about a year, I just forgot to put it in my "currently reading" and finished it this week!" — Jan 11, 2026 02:04PM
“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
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“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
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“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
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“When we learn the wrong lessons of history, evil is reinforced rather than restrained- particularly when we use the injuries of the past to serve the interests of the future and ignore the injustices of the present.”
― Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror
― Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror
“And then one babbles - "If only I could bear it, or the worst of it, or any of it, instead of her." But one can't tell how serious that bid is, for nothing is staked on it. If it suddenly became a real possibility, then, for the first time, we should discover how seriously we had meant it. But is it ever allowed?
It is allowed to One, we are told, and I find I can now believe again, that He has done vicariously whatever can be done. He replies to our babble, "You cannot and you dare not. I could and dared.”
― A Grief Observed
It is allowed to One, we are told, and I find I can now believe again, that He has done vicariously whatever can be done. He replies to our babble, "You cannot and you dare not. I could and dared.”
― A Grief Observed
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