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“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
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“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
Ben ’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ben ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,000 books
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136 friends
1,579 books
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106 friends
67 books
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14 friends
2,663 books
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234 friends
144 books
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72 friends
108 books
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12 friends
307 books
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39 friends
145 books
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57 friends
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