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Ultimately, it is not our nation or culture but the very nature of our lives that is at stake. For how we spend the brutally limited resource of our attention will determine those lives to a degree most of us may prefer not to think about.
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“He wants to say. That is to say, he means. As in the French, “vouloir dire,” which means, literally, to want to say, but which means, in fact, to mean. He means to say what he wants. He wants to say what he means. He says what he wants to mean. He means what he says.”
― The Invention of Solitude
― The Invention of Solitude
“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Hige sceal pe heardra, heorte pe cenre,
mod sceal pe mare pe ure maegen lytlao.
( Will shall be the sterner, heart the bolder, spirit the greater as
our strength lessens. )”
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mod sceal pe mare pe ure maegen lytlao.
( Will shall be the sterner, heart the bolder, spirit the greater as
our strength lessens. )”
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“Γιατί είναι πάντα ένας ν' αγαπά και ένας για ν' αγαπιέται.”
― Η μυστηριώδης ασθένεια
― Η μυστηριώδης ασθένεια
“…no one is exactly sure of what they mean on any given subject until they have written their thoughts down; I similarly believe that we have very little understanding of what we have thought until we have submitted those thoughts to others who are at least as intelligent as ourselves.”
― Danse Macabre
― Danse Macabre
Costas’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Costas’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
170 books
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47 friends
334 books
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266 friends
398 books
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199 friends
302 books
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90 friends
3,336 books
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493 friends
1,410 books
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75 friends
140 books
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393 friends
742 books
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1,220 friends
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