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“You told me you had destroyed it."
"I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
"I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.”
― The Allegory of the Cave
― The Allegory of the Cave
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
Janja’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Janja’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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