Cameron Byers
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“When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
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“Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”
― The Eternal Now
― The Eternal Now
“If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.”
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“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”
― Desert Solitaire
― Desert Solitaire
Cameron’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Business, Classics, Comics, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Self help, apocalyptic, utopia, dystopia, post-apocalyptic, personal-development, dark-fantasy, heroic-fantasy, low-fantasy, high-fantasy, weird-fiction, survival, sword-and-sorcery, and how-to
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