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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Indeed I myself who was Cain and bore that sign had imagined that the sign was nothing to be ashamed of but a distinction rather and that because of my wickedness and 'misfortune I stood higher than my father, higher than the pious and righteous.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate.”
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis
“And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, is that if something happened to one of us--excuse me for saying this--but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.”
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
― What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
erik’s 2025 Year in Books
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30 friends
116 books
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184 books
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298 books
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12 books
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15 books
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113 books
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16 friends
21 books
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