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“Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
Ben’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ben’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
271 books
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136 friends
883 books
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67 friends
1,862 books
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133 friends
603 books
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563 friends
1,370 books
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87 friends
1,147 books
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75 friends
744 books
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113 friends
1,314 books
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111 friends
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