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“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”
― Stray Birds
― Stray Birds
“My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.”
― Stray Birds
― Stray Birds
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
― Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
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“Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.' Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward. There are no cocky souls in a cancer ward. But there's a lot of pain, not just of the excruciating physical kind that they shoot you full of morphine to smother. There are a lot of tears. All round. It is hard to say goodbye to the people you love. And it's scary. Cancer wards have a way of knocking the cockiness out of you. And for what? Another cigarette?”
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Vinny’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Vinny’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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300 friends
535 books
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150 friends
155 books
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150 books
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21 books
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467 books
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409 friends
228 books
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68 friends
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