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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
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“Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. / The name of the story will be time, / But you must not speak its name. / Tell me a story of deep delight.”
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“A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
― Antigone
― Antigone
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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Alek’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Classics, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Horror, Manga, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller
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