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“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”
― The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
― The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
“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
“The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.”
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“Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in 1849. Dostoevsky was accused of writing socialist propaganda. He was eventually pardoned and wrote stories to ward off his creditors. Just like in the early '70s I wrote albums to ward off mine.”
― Chronicles, Volume One
― Chronicles, Volume One
“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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Philip’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
482 books
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5 friends
2,288 books
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46 friends
101 books
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1,455 friends
582 books
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25 friends
436 books
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52 friends
195 books
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15 friends
984 books
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196 friends
259 books
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233 friends
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