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“There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.”
― Nostromo
― Nostromo
“That man seems to have a particular talent for being on the spot whenever there is something picturesque to be done.”
― Nostromo
― Nostromo
“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― La vieillesse
― La vieillesse
“People look to education now in the same way as they once looked to religion. Are you save? Have you got your O-levels? It’s the same thing – salvation.”
― Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
― Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
“There is something treasonable about a child that does well. A market gardener I know, who is now about twenty, is a lonely person because he went to the grammar school and the village women say, ‘Didn’t get him far did it? All that schooling and he’s still on the land.’ Perhaps they know there is nothing like education for breaking up an ordinary country family.”
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Brandon’s 2025 Year in Books
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640 books
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56 friends
102 books
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20 friends
965 books
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171 friends
316 books
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74 friends
112 books
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43 friends
1,230 books
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138 friends
3 books
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3 friends
840 books
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147 friends
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