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“Time is the moving image of reality”
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“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
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“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”
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“Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”
― The Symposium
― The Symposium
“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.”
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Ruth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ruth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,333 books
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55 friends
574 books
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22 friends
28 books
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46 friends
382 books
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19 friends
269 books
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11 friends
27 books
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11 friends
0 books
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4 friends
2 books
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7 friends
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