Max Kalinin

Max’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (150)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (140)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
brilliant‎ (30)
full-on-brutality‎ (29)
masterpiece‎ (27)
no-holding-back‎ (24)

solid-5‎ (21)
one-of-a-kind‎ (19)
easy-read‎ (16)
gave-me-goosbumps‎ (15)
mind-blowing‎ (12)
revolutionary‎ (12)
damn-kids‎ (6)
i-can-quote-it-forever‎ (5)

meh‎ (5)
books-i-have-but-haven-t-read-yet‎ (4)
revenge‎ (4)
could-be-great-turned-out-meh‎ (3)
i-can-t-believe-they-made-a-tv-show‎ (3)
boring‎ (2)
i-expected-so-much-more‎ (2)
nostalgia‎ (2)

waste-of-paper‎ (2)
waste-of-time‎ (2)
why-did-i-bother-finishing-it‎ (2)
crap‎ (1)
i-literally-rolled-on-the-floor-lau‎ (1)
why-did-i-read-it‎ (1)

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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading

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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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