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“The sky grows dark
The black over blue
Yet the stars still dare
To shine for you”
― The Midnight Library
The black over blue
Yet the stars still dare
To shine for you”
― The Midnight Library
“If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior.”
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“But we little know until tried, how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging us across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.”
― The Mountains of California
― The Mountains of California
“It is understandable that those who fail should incline to blame the world for their failure.”
― The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
― The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“The happiness which they (the philosophers) meant was not a life of rapture; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing. A life thus composed, to those who have been fortunate enough to obtain it, has always appeared worthy of the name of happiness.”
― Utilitarianism
― Utilitarianism
Jake’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jake’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,252 books
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106 friends
354 books
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57 friends
221 books
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12 friends
18 books
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3 friends
16 books
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3 friends
9 books
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9 friends
194 books
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10 friends
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