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“How many Sundays – how many hundreds of Sundays like this – lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays I didn't wind my spring.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Since the pleasure we get from art is in a sense not our own, we don’t have to pay for it or regret it later. By art I mean everything that delights us without being ours – the trail left by what has passed, a smile given to someone else, a sunset, a poem, the objective universe. To possess is to lose. To feel without possessing is to preserve and keep, for it is to extract from things their essence.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
Jason’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jason’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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2 friends
69 books
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23 books
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1 book
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29 books
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3 friends
427 books
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212 books
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364 books
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49 friends
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