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"Ah, Spotify listening hours, how you betray me... I'll come back to you in a month I guess" — Apr 29, 2026 06:21AM
"Ah, Spotify listening hours, how you betray me... I'll come back to you in a month I guess" — Apr 29, 2026 06:21AM
Seriousness seemed the only mood a plain girl might adopt without exposing herself to the scorn or pity of others.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you’ve never met, but love. Even if you hate them, it’s a loving thing to do. You speak someone else’s words to yourself, and hear them for the first time.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Because memory…is everything. Physically speaking, a memory is nothing but a specific combination of neurons firing together—a symphony of neural activity. But in actuality, it’s the filter between us and reality. You think you’re tasting this wine, hearing the words I’m saying, in the present, but there’s no such thing. The neural impulses from your taste buds and your ears get transmitted to your brain, which processes them and dumps them into working memory—so by the time you know you’re experiencing something, it’s already in the past. Already a memory.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“Books were considered a sign of idleness at best and dangerous at worst.”
― The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
― The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
“Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
A Truth Universally Acknowledged...
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... that every girl is in need of a good book.
Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
BROSKI NATION
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Book Club for Brittany Broski stans and everyone is welcome :) Will update with all books she talks about on her podcast The Broski Report and her TT, ...more
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