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“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
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“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
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Unique’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Unique’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
155 books
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40 friends
759 books
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12 friends
40 books
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36 friends
7 books
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92 friends
2 books
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23 friends
0 books
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36 friends
2 books
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37 friends
2 books
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17 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Gay and Lesbian, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Self help, Spirituality, and Young-adult
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