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Throughout human history, primarily in the realm of ideas and beliefs but still often in the realm of tangible and practical issues, one of the few rare truths that seems to have endured is the fact that we are consistently very wrong.
“Again that awful sensation he had known of late passed with deadly chill over his soul. Again it became suddenly plain and perceptible to him that he had just told a fearful lie—that he would never now be able to speak freely of everything—that he would never again be able to speak of anything to anyone.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“It was all so sad. But it was all so beautiful, too.”
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“There was something obscene about a billionaire’s being optimistic and aggressive and cunning.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“Allah commands and ‘trembling’ creation must obey! The ‘prophet’ is right, he is right when he sets a battery across the street and blows up the innocent and the guilty without deigning to explain! It’s for you to obey, trembling creation, and not to have desires, for that’s not for you!”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
Elijah’s 2025 Year in Books
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