“It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
Duchess’s 2025 Year in Books
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