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“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”
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“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”
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“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
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“He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. Then it disappears and what you wanted to understand disappears with it.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
Philip’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
365 books
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231 friends
353 books
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3 friends
2,239 books
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46 friends
927 books
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50 friends
75 books
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1,098 friends
709 books
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837 friends
1,049 books
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192 friends
321 books
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23 friends
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