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“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― The Basis of Morality
― The Basis of Morality
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
― The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Oskari’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Oskari’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
986 books
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62 friends
647 books
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50 friends
1,485 books
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43 friends
238 books
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207 friends
394 books
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859 books
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164 books
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1 book
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169 friends
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Literary Fiction, Manga, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Young-adult, and War
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