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"Deng had been publicly denounced as "the number-two capitalist roader" after Liu Shaoqi and excluded from his state and Party positions. His brother was publicly tortured and died by suicide, his eldest son was paralyzed from the chest down after jumping from a window when terrorized by Red Guards at Peking University, and a brother-in-law died while being persecuted." — Aug 28, 2026 01:38AM
"Deng had been publicly denounced as "the number-two capitalist roader" after Liu Shaoqi and excluded from his state and Party positions. His brother was publicly tortured and died by suicide, his eldest son was paralyzed from the chest down after jumping from a window when terrorized by Red Guards at Peking University, and a brother-in-law died while being persecuted." — Aug 28, 2026 01:38AM
Stian said:
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I decided to read this book after a long walk that I took while listening to a Philosophy Bites episode titled "Who's your favourite philosopher?" In it, Nigel Warburton simply asks a host of prominent philosophers the question, and the answers, pred
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"On such an occasion we are apt not only to forget our scepticism, but even our modesty too; and make use of such terms as these, 'tis evident, 'tis certain, 'tis undeniable; which a due deference to the public ought, perhaps, to prevent. I may have fallen into this fault after the example of others; but I here enter a caveat against any objections, which may be offer'd on that head; and declare that ..." — Aug 14, 2026 05:12AM
"On such an occasion we are apt not only to forget our scepticism, but even our modesty too; and make use of such terms as these, 'tis evident, 'tis certain, 'tis undeniable; which a due deference to the public ought, perhaps, to prevent. I may have fallen into this fault after the example of others; but I here enter a caveat against any objections, which may be offer'd on that head; and declare that ..." — Aug 14, 2026 05:12AM
Stian
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"„In jener Stunde sah ich Aragorn an und dachte, was für ein großer und entsetzlicher Gebieter er mit seiner Willensstärke hätte werden können, wenn er den Ring für sich genommen hätte. Nicht umsonst fürchtet Mordor ihn. Aber edler ist seine Seele, als Sauron sich vorstellen kann; stammt er denn nicht von Lúthiens Kindern ab?“" — Aug 23, 2026 12:22PM
"„In jener Stunde sah ich Aragorn an und dachte, was für ein großer und entsetzlicher Gebieter er mit seiner Willensstärke hätte werden können, wenn er den Ring für sich genommen hätte. Nicht umsonst fürchtet Mordor ihn. Aber edler ist seine Seele, als Sauron sich vorstellen kann; stammt er denn nicht von Lúthiens Kindern ab?“" — Aug 23, 2026 12:22PM
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
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“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
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“She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’… but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Livet tar snart slutt likevel,
og da gjør det ikke noe at du har vært ensom og stygg og ulykkelig.”
― Et stort øde landskap
og da gjør det ikke noe at du har vært ensom og stygg og ulykkelig.”
― Et stort øde landskap
Stian’s 2025 Year in Books
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