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“By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn. What I learned from Naoko's death was this: no truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“The relentless onslaught of this stupefying imagery that pounds our inner landscapes flat, a carpet-bombing of the mind. The language of the world, that overwhelms us.”
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
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“Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.”
― Voice of the Fire
― Voice of the Fire
“the mind is not sealed in the skull but extends throughout the body. We think not only with our brain but also with our eyes and ears, nose and mouth, limbs and torso. And when we use tools to extend our grasp, we think with them as well. “Thinking, or knowledge-getting, is far from being the armchair thing it is often supposed to be,” wrote the American philosopher and social reformer John Dewey in 1916. “Hands and feet, apparatus and appliances of all kinds are as much a part of it as changes in the brain.”51 To act is to think, and to think is to act.”
― The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
― The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
Ruby’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ruby’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
521 books
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125 friends
932 books
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75 friends
115 books
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34 friends
1,160 books
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176 friends
152 books
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7 friends
422 books
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31 friends
2,285 books
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45 friends
1 book
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3 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Fiction, Graphic novels, Memoir, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, and Young-adult
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