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“We are our choices.”
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“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
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“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
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“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
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Emily’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Emily’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
88 books
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279 friends
925 books
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80 friends
424 books
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64 friends
440 books
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52 friends
120 books
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66 friends
291 books
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33 friends
463 books
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210 friends
528 books
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97 friends
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